apologies again

hi readers

sorry once again for the irregular updates. in my defence, i have been somewhat ill again. i know, it's like a perpetual thing at the moment. on top of cold/flu/sniffles symptoms, i've had to contend with this "temporal arteritis" flaring up again. for most of the past week i could have happily replaced my own head with something else. anything, really, as long as it was not quite so painful. it seems to have cleared up, i am pleased to say, and so nothing stands in my way of updates!

happiest news of the week is the arrival of Duncan & Linda's baby. born on the 10th March, clocking it at 3.7kgs - no idea if that is good or not, i assume it is OK as mother & son (Robert Arthur) are due home on Sunday. nice one guys, looking forward to seeing you!

saddest news of the week revolves around my beloved Boro and Sporting Lisbon. i have no comment that i consider suitable to print here on that one.

we watched an "odd" film last night, The Butterfly Effect. it revolves around Chaos Theory, something that has interested me possibly before, but certainly around the time of Jurassic Park. it has one major plot flaw that stops it from being a classic - alas, cannot reveal that here as it would spoil the film. worth a look, but be warned there are seldom pleasant or easy images on screen. as for the lead, young Aston, well, the film is no Dude Where's My Car?, and he at least seems to translate from dumb comedy to "proper" films than Keanu has.

ego problem of the year? read this :

Oscar-winning actor Russell Crowe said he may have been a target of an al Qaeda kidnap plot in early 2001, part of a bid by the militant network to "culturally destabilise" the United States

this is even better than David Hasselhoff being upset about not being mentioned for his "contribution" to the fall of the Berlin Wall (he was playing a concert there on the night they tore it down). well, we have had warnings - do you recall Russell consdescending to recite his poetry to a bemused audience when he won a BAFTA for A Beautiful Mind, and then starting to hit people when they cut him short?

anyway, that will do for the moment. Michele needs to log into UNISA to check something, and as I am downloading the latest Episode III trailer, too many browser windows crashes the system :)