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Monday evening: 6.13pm – Week proceeding according to plan. No major fuck-ups yet. No storming arguments with people. No gut-wrenching horrors creeping up from behind. Remain calm, gentlemen, we’re going in…

An interesting new way of rating weblogs manifests itself over at Bloghop’s Ratings. Great – just what I need. Beebo finally collapses and immediately there is something else to get obsessed about…

Today’s pet obsession is the Beatles’ song “A Day In the Life”, which has become some kind of vast uber-meme in my head, munching its way – in a cheerful fashion – through every other thought I might attempt to have.

Dark times are coming. The end is nigh. If only they’d heeded the warnings of their peers. Fellow sufferers of the HMV sale, I salute thee: monger.co.uk, not so soft, lukelog.

Dan Hon, ex of Daily-Doozer has relaunched as Extenuating Circumstances. I said a while back that I’d design a site for him, but now I’m a bit torn – I mean, it’s not like his new design isn’t pretty bloody cool. But I did promise at the same time, and I don’t want him to feel obliged to use it if it’s not as good.

Go on, you sexy sexy people. Go and rate plasticbag.org over at blogstart. You know you want to.

It’s a new politics for a new era. Visit Not a Protest today:

“The First Amendment guarantees Freedom of Speech, EVEN IF YOU HAVE NOTHING TO SAY”

Oh my dismal fall from grace. Over the last couple of weeks, I have been trying to reintroduce the counter-cultural spin to plasticbag.org – a trend I hope to continue. But I have hit a “speed bump”.

Yesterday I got a text message from Mella. It told me not to go near HMV, that they were evil and that they had caused (with their sale) her immediate bankrupcy.

“Pshaw!” I thought to myself, “I am not as weak willed as this foolish girl! I can resist these corporate temptations.” Forty-five minutes (and fifty-eight pounds ($85) later), I was forced to confess myself unequivocally their consumer bitch. I was about ten minutes away from begging to give them more money. [You only have to look at the Consumption panel to the left to realise the extent of my horror.]

Kate found it all funny when we got back home. But she didn’t find it so funny this morning, when she reported the “accidental purchase” of six videos…

Perhaps the answer for poor beleaguered Apple is to sign the petition to start making OS X on Intel. If it wasn’t for my suspicion that Microsoft might start withdrawing the use of packages like Office and Explorer, I’d support it whole-heartedly…

Bad news for Apple sends the stock price falling. And unlike every other computer company in the world, what’s bad news for Apple is bad news for Apple users, as quite a lot of the company’s ability to stay afloat has been the absolute refusal of most of their consumers to realise the obvious, give up, and bow and scrape to the altar of Gates. As an Apple user myself, I know this to be true…