2014 — 30 November: Sunday
There's a fighting chance1 that 'molehole' might just judder back into some form of life later today. As I said, its restoration is somewhat out of my hands. But Junior tells me he's in the process of fixing problems that were apparently caused by some form of root kit trying to make hay in a PHP area he uses for some of his thumbnails elsewhere in the same domain that I, erm, make use of for my little patch of files. Nothing, I'm glad to report, in any of molehole's defiantly simple set of SHTML files. There are some definite advantages to being a Luddite at times.
Watch this space :-)
I've been improving...
... the Shining Hour (quite a few hours, actually) combing through the DVD Profiler database in which I catalogue my DVDs and Blu-rays for listing online, here. It belatedly occurred to me that — with very few exceptions — I have no need to break out details of the individual discs contained in box sets when a simple title is sufficient. I think my next piece of fine tuning will be to clean up the genres associated with given titles. It's fair to say, for example, that a lot of people have lazily assigned "television" as a genre. Far from helpfully, in my opinion.
Nothing (much) to fear...
... yet it takes a comedian to spell it out, from time to time:
The chances of being killed, or nearly killed, in a terrorist outrage are really rather slight. I know Theresa May says that there could be one any minute — and that 40 have been foiled since 7/7. But even if we trust her — and I don't trust her — that number is definitely a maximum. She's got no incentive to underestimate, so no more than 40 will have been foiled. Even if they had all happened, and were all as bad as 7/7 and each killed 52 people, that's only 2,080 dead in seven years. A tragic state of affairs, no doubt, but it would still leave terrorist attack as a more unusual way to die than falling down stairs.
Getting another round tuit
As I worked my way through video titles beginning with "R" I reached "Rumour has it..." by Rob Reiner. "Looks interesting" thinks I, "how come I've never watched it?"
Judging by its 'slot' in my CaseLogic folder system I deduce I must have bought it at some point in 2006. It just fell by the wayside in the maelstrom of what turned out to be Christa's final illness, the upheavals of retirement and what have you. Anyway, I've just watched it, and thoroughly enjoyed it, too. Which seems to put me at odds — for by no means the first time — with many self-appointed film critics out there on the web.
Well, I knows what I likes. Bite me :-)