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Today I permanently deleted my Facebook account. I will decide over the next couple of weeks whether to delete my Twitter account also. If this doesn't make me give my blog more attention I suppose it will go too.

Personally I doubt I can completely abandon Facebook. I'm at a point now where I visit Facebook only 2 or 3 times a week for about 5 minutes each time. I did quit altogether for many months but was persuaded to go back some people on my contact list. I now realise that these people just want to read...

I am getting worse [*]all pictures on a wall must be at the same height as the door frame.[/*] [*]plant pots must have equal gaps between them.[/*] [*]paper money must be all the right way up.[/*] [*]I must put on my left shoe first.[/*] [*]I must visit websites on favourites list in the same order ...

My first clue that this guy is laughing all the way to the bank is his stage name: "Iain Baxter&". Oh please. I have a mental image of him not just laughing all the way to the bank but laughing all the way to the bank whilst dancing a jig down the street clutching two huge bags of cas...

2.5M people in Toronto.
20 toilets

125000 people in each queue.
Allowing 2 minutes per visit.
2*12500=250000 minutes
250000/60=4167hours
4167/24=173 days for the person at the back of the line

The "contact me" link
Can be found on the sidebar
Right there in full view

See the "contact" link
Sitting there at the bottom
In somewhat small print

Wouldn't it be fun to see haiku spam:

Thanks for the support
Amusing information
It is obvious.

I always insist that "Art is whatever you can get away with".

Wind the clock back a couple of days with a System Restore?

I have no idea if this would work but you could try uninstalling Firefox and then reinstalling it (after backing up your bookmarks first). I think the latest version is 3.6. I abandoned AVG late last year in favour of the Microsoft Essentials (free) for protection against viruses, spyware, and other...

ejm wrote:And ice dancing?! How on earth is this an olympic sport?

It's almost as bad as that other olympic "sport" Flouncing About With A Ribbon On A Stick, or whatever it's called.

Or the Winter Olympics motto could be "Look at me everybody. Look at me . Look at me!"

Schadenfreude.

Do you have the option to purchase your electricity from a different supplier?

That made me think of

hypnochodriac (n) one who believes they have an illness induced by hypnosis

hippocondriac (n) one who believes they are an ill hippopotamus.