The Dark Furie

We've just watched Bender's Big Score. A triumphant return for Futurama I reckon. In some ways it didn't seem quite as funny as the old ones, but I think it's one of those that'll grow on us as we notice new things we missed last watch. That's the thing with made for DVD shows - they put in visual gags you may miss the first time but catch later on.

I'm lying here at the moment listening to old Bon Jovi songs and trying to relax. I remember a dream I had about Bon Jovi once. In it my friend had an incurable new disease and was dying. His photo was in the paper and standing at the front of the photo was Jon Bon Jovi. If you've ever bought a Bon Jovi album you'll see him at the front of each cover image. We used to joke that it was his hand at the top in the Keep The Faith cover image.

Oh well, I'm rambling now. Promise you all a proper post tomorrow, but it may be late cause we're having an early roast tomorrow for lunch and there's a lot of prep to do.

Apart from that I've been testing some new mobile applications out. They're both betas but that's where the difference ends. One is highly polished, the other still belongs in it's alpha testing phase as far as I'm concerned. It appeals to my sense of irony that it's the big company that has the worst product at this stage, especially as it's a beta of the third version of their Yahoo GO! Mobile symbian application.

Strangely, until I deleted this application, every image I had in my phone showed up as a horse in it's thumbnail version. Yeah, thanks for the weirdness Yahoo. Surely the constant connection problems on your application were enough?

On the flipside of the coin we have EQO, who have just released the first beta of their new symbian messenger. Anyone who's played with the java version of EQO knows that it's a great messenger if a little cheeky about loading all your contacts into the application to help you with it's VOIP functionality.

The symbian application continues this tradition and, although this beta is missing the VOIP functionality, as a free messenger it can't be beaten. The only bug I found in it turned out to be a problem on my friend's end (seriously, who stays logged into MSN for a week?). Highly recommended. Get it here.

There's also the fact that we've got our Xbox now so we've got a bit more to entertain us than usual. Hell, including books, dvds and games I've got enough to keep me off here for a few straight weeks. That's not counting the fact that Kim's a bigger part of my life than all those put together. Guess you wouldn't know that from this page eh? I rarely post about personal stuff. It's just the way I am.

I suppose this post is half explanation and half apology for not being around as much recently. I think my posting style has matured a bit though. I'm trying to make them a bit meatier so to speak. Add relevant images and links. So that means they take longer to prepare. I think I'll probably start doing something like Tils does, with a post every day for my regular readers, and work on bigger stuff in the background. Or maybe in a couple of days I'll revert to how I used to be. Never can tell eh?

I was holding him one handed by his throat (actually his windpipe with my fingers digging in) and lifting him off the floor and up against the wall. It's been so long since I've met someone stupid enough to force me to be violent that I'd forgotten just how good it feels.

Kim's never seen me like that before and part of me's worried that it's damaged our relationship in some way. She says it hasn't, but I know how my face looks when I'm like that. It's scared more than a few friends and girlfriends away before. It's worrying me even though I know it shouldn't.