Author: Greg

It’s March Madness time for the NCAA Men’s Basketball National Championship, and I’m here with my predictions of how things will pan out…

So I predict an Illinois Fighting Illini slender win over the Kansas Jayhawks in the final in St. Louis on April 4th. But what do I know about college hoops?

Time will tell…

For some inexplicable reason, Erika wanted a picture of the office, so here it is in all it’s glory from a very different angle than you usually see…

You might notice me (new haircut and all) way up the back, hard at work (obviously).

The funniest thing was, a few days after this was taken we were all shifted around thanks to Erika getting a new desk…

The Office

Originally uploaded by WebErika.

Firstly, I hate it when I clean out my bloated comments table and accidentally delete a few ligit comments, sorry about your latest one Mark, t’was an accident… Honest…

Secondly, it’s something Phil and I have discussed, it’s about that Brian Nicholls guy and the woman he kidnapped before giving himself up… It all seems a bit too good to be true, if you ask me. Her little story of how she persuaded him to give himself up after pleading with him for hours and hours is a bit iffy, that’s the best way I can describe it…

Either she developed Stockholm Syndrome REALLY fast or she was “in on it” all along, Phil and me guess she knew him and basically gave him a place to crash for the night, then once the $60,000 bounty came into play, she grabbed it… One of the stories circulating is he dumped a truck in the middle of the night, and she followed him in her own car while he did it. If that’s true then that’s the clincher, no way would a “hostage” do that after a matter of hours of being captured.

Yes, all smells very suspicious indeed. But I guess she’ll get found out soon enough, people like that don’t shine in the national spotlight, they tend to burn out extremely quickly.

This nugget of information comes via Ben Stansfield. Apparently AOL have revised their AIM terms of services, and they have thrown users rights to privacy out the window…

Content You Post

[…]

Although you or the owner of the Content retain ownership of all right, title and interest in Content that you post to any AIM Product, AOL owns all right, title and interest in any compilation, collective work or other derivative work created by AOL using or incorporating this Content. In addition, by posting Content on an AIM Product, you grant AOL, its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, assigns, agents and licensees the irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide right to reproduce, display, perform, distribute, adapt and promote this Content in any medium. You waive any right to privacy. You waive any right to inspect or approve uses of the Content or to be compensated for any such uses.

Now, that’s some pretty big changes, admittedly AIM isn’t the most secure in the world but a lot of people still use it on a daily basis and most will be blissfully unaware of this change. It’s currently for users registered after February 5th 2005, but how long till it affects everyone else?

Following on from the earlier post about Kelly Clarkson’s “Since U Been Gone,” it’s become more and more apparent that the whole thing was a ploy, nay a scheme hatched by Jason Kottke and Matt Haughey (and others) to out wannabe’s as self-confessed lovers of all things Kelly… Yep, duped hook, line and sinker, and I wasn’t the only one.

But Melissa at Anything But Ordinary has an answer, a “Since U Can’t Stop Listening, Here’s 12 Steps For U” support group…

1. We admit we are powerless over our addiction.
2. Came to believe there is more than one song on our music player.
3. Made a decision to turn off Repeat and turn on Shuffle.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of our music collection.
5. Admitted to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our song collection.
6. Were entirely ready to have our spouses, friends or relatives remove all traces of Kelly Clarkson from our music device if the addiction continues to spiral out of control.
7. Humbly asked Simon Cowell to remove our shortcomings, or at least mock us publicly.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed while singing:

   “I can breathe for the first time, I’m so movin’ on!”

   …at the top of our lungs, and became willing to make amends to them all.

9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when doing so might expose them to the song, and thus spread the addiction.
10. Continued to take personal music inventory and when we were stuck on Repeat again, promptly sung aloud, then coughed in embarassment.
11. Sought through caffeine and copious amounts of junk food to improve our understanding of Kelly, and forget her previous hideous errors in judgement.
12. Having had a musical awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

All very good ideas, except maybe number 6, because I like “Miss Independent” as well, I’m not getting rid of that, no siree… Which leads me to my main idea, I’m outing every guilty pleasure I have in my music playlist.

• Amerie – I’m Coming Out
• Atomic Kitten – Whole Again
• Avril Lavigne – Let Go & Under My Skin
• Aztec Camera – Somewhere In My Heart
• Bloodhound Gang – Hooray For Boobies
• Britney Spears – Baby One More Time…, Oops! I Did It Again & Toxic
• The Carpenters – (They Long To Be) Close To You
• Christina Aguilera – Come On Over (All I Want Is You)
• Cledus T. Judd – I Love Nascar
• Collapsed Lung – Eat My Goal
• Eamon – (Fuck It) I Don’t Want You Back
• Fastball – The Way
• Flock Of Seagulls – I Ran (So Far Away)
• Geri Halliwell – Schizophonic
• Goldie Looking Chain – Guns Don’t Kill People, Rappers Do
• Jessica Simpson – With You & I Think I’m In Love With You
• Josie And The Pussycats – Original Soundtrack
• Justin Timberlake – Justified
• Kurt Nilsen – She’s So High
• Limp Bizkit – 3 Dollar Bill Y’all, Significant Other, Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water & Results May Vary
• Lindsay Lohan – Disconnected
• Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory & Meteora
• Mandy Moore – I Wanna Be With You
• Mariah Carey – Music Box & Daydream
• Paula Abdul – Straight Up
• Puddle Of Mudd – Come Clean
• R. Kelly – R.
• Rachel Stevens – Funky Dory

There, the blogosphere ain’t got nothing on me now cause, in the words of Miss Clarkson, “I’m so movin’ on…”