Creative Commons - are an open source media portal - they are trying to convince copyright holders to offer their copyrighted material to Internet users for free. An admirable idea, I feel, though let's see if Disney or Sony or Metallica feel the community spirit and joining in. Better ask Satan how the weather's doing - I doubt it's freezing over though. Mind, I guess the frozen head of Walt Disney could hardly say "over my dead body", now, could he... since he doesn't have one

Oh yes, btw it is my avowed intention before I croak to pull the plug and watch his cryogenic juices wash down the plug hole.

Hands off our Beeb - loony tory questions the right of the BBC to it's place on the Internet - this is just typical of the loony politicians in this country - the BBC is a world-leading media organisation and all the right-wing idiots that run this country (and I mean you too Mr Blair) can do is suck up to Rupert Murdoch, a candidate for Big Brother if eveer there was one

Psychotic bible bashers smother 8 year old autistic to squeeze out the devil - they might as well have wrung him through a spiritual mangle

Saddam's 'personal wizard' spells out his fate Shades of Lord Voldemort here, apparently Saddam's personal sorceror now predicts his death but is too scred to name himself in case of reprisals - what kind of sorceror can't use magic to protect himself? A fictional one

Finger Head - a nasty, nasty pic,

6 year old bridesmaid horror: "BRAVE bridesmaid Shawnee George made it down the aisle %u2014 despite falling head first out of a wedding car"

Be careful what information is in your word files - An article on New Scientist looks at the the threat to your personal information with information that may be concealed inside Wod files and PDFs - the easy remedy is to turn off track changes, or to do a save as before sending. Also, always password prtect your documents

I've just signed up with the BlogRolling service to manage my Blog links. so far so easy, managed to hook it into my blogger template pretty easily and it even inherited my CSS styles - cool.

I seem to have gone from CSS know-nothing to know-summat - yay - there's hope for me yet - At least I can put expert CSS on my CV and my resume website I'm working on at the moment.

Internet myths - from the BBC website - it looks at the phenomenon of Internet hoaxing where wild rumours spread around the web quite quickly and become established as truth with little or no substantiation. My particular favourites are that

• In June, the web buzzed with rumours that Powergen, the British gas and electricity company, had chosen an unfortunate domain name for its new Italian division: Powergenitalia.com.


• Many still believe that Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary, referred to France and Germany as an "axis of weasels" in the run-up to the Iraq war in March.

Unfortunatley this article also debunks my most cherished myth, that Walt Disney's head is frozen underneath Sleeping Beauty's castle in Disneyworld - not that is a shame, I've always looked forward to a public melting ceremony

Power outages in the US and Canada - more than 50 million people have been without power since yesterday with an enormous power-outage which has affected the whole of the eastern seaboard. Terrorism has been discounted, but noone seems to know what has been the cause. People have been stuck in lifts, tunnels have been shut, one can only guess how hot it is without any air conditioning, I wonder if it's still chucking it down with rain.