Unprotected Sex

Why is it, that if a university student says that they don't currently use barrier or oral contraception, the doctor concludes that they are in fact having lots of unprotected sex?

Ummm... there is another option.

No Tea

I don't really understand how my brain decides that fruit teas (as in the kind that are just fruit and spices - no tea - in a tea bag) taste like tea. This evening I tried an ASDA Blackcurrant Infusion which was less tea-like than the lemon one but I still think that it has that distinct tea taste. It warmed me up nicely and the "taste" was sufficently masked by the blackcurranty flavours that I will most likely have another but... why can't they just taste of no tea?

Thursday Wednesday

Today is Wednesday but it feels like Thursday.

Random Misery

Why do people have moments of just :( with no reason at all?

Completely unrelated:

$this->{get_parent_class(__CLASS__)}();

(found in this entry of BlueShoes PHP Blog)

How was that ever a sensible way to call a parent class's constructor? PHP4 is so odd.

Coding or Packing...?

I'm sure I'm supposed to be packing today. Mostly I seem to be looking around at my chaos. When I'm not looking around in confusion I am... coding. I said I wasn't going to code today, not until I've packed lots anyway. I'm sure I could easily get all my packing done today but I know it just won't happen.

(And when I'm neither packing nor coding, I'm sorting out the new PC, hurrah!)

iTunes fun resolved!

I found my problem in the end. I downloaded and installed 1.4.1 and nothing changed. Then I noticed I'd got a version of iTunes in 'Applications' as well as one I knew to be in a 'Media' folder in 'Applications'. Turned out that I had installed a new version (presumably when I had the software agreement pop up at me) but it had gone into the default location of 'Applications' rather than replacing the existing item. After that first time I guess it always opened the old version which didn't like the new library. Some shuffling things round fixed my problem.

I'm slightly confused as to how I opened the new version at all. It's fairly likely I successfully installed iTunes 1.4.1 ages ago but have always run the older version. The older version would have detected the need for an update but once downloaded, Software Update would have found 1.4.1 installed already and so not bothered with it. The 1.3 version was the one in the dock so I guess I must have looked for it in Spotlight sometime this (yesterday) afternoon and so opened 1.4.1 instead.

Hmmm... confusion and unconfusion.

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I'm about to save this but I'm stopped by the sudden appearance of exciting rain! If it weren't 3am I'd think about going to run around outside.

iTunes

iTunes has got itself into a terrible muddle. It's been trying to update to a newer version (7.4.1 I assume) for ages now. Software update would pop up and say it had an update, would go away and download it and would then, once the download was completed, seemed to take another look and say that it didn't want to install anything after all. This has been occurring for over a month now I think.

This afternoon, when I opened iTunes it seemed to think it was running a new version and showed me the software agreement. I assumed that it had caught up with itself and didn't bother to think any more about it.

Now, when I open iTunes (I know I said I was going to bed, but I remembered a quick piece of code I could write) it says:

The file "iTunes Library" cannot be read because it was created by a newer version of iTunes.

So it seems that whatever it installed has gone away again. I had a look at version.plist and that says it's currently version 1.3.1 that's installed. As I now can't use iTunes at all I've decided to download a copy of 7.4.1 from the Apple site and hope it'll be all happy again...

On the plus side, my code change was a five minute job so I have achieved something by delaying my sleep some more.

The Weather

Why do weather people apologise? What makes the cloud pesky? Clouds are clouds, weather is weather. The weather woman saying she's hopeful that the clouds will break isn't going to make me feel better about the chances of more sunshine in the afternoon. Rain doesn't try to move in, it just happens where it happens.

Today is a day of sunny blue-skies and fluffy white clouds. It's probably warm outside but I'm inside coding :)

I don't understand

What makes someone wait at a pedestrian crossing for a gap in the traffic before pushing their (empty) pushchair into the road and then pressing the button?

People are weird.

That alt key

There seems to be an alt key in my way when I steal other people's computers. Where's that one that does stuff - where's my Apple key?

Gr.

Somehow my hands have taught themselves that the button of usefulness is just that bit further over than the control key. Ah well.

Bruises

Will somebody please tell me exactly how one acquires a seemingly endless supply of bruises (of varying sizes and in various locations) without ever remembering how they came across even a single one? Before anyone comes to the perhaps obvious conclusion, the answer to this question is not alcohol. So what is it...?

Tea... and toast

I just fancy a cup of tea right now.

I don't even like tea. It just seems right. Not quite right enough for me to go and make a cup knowing I won't drink more than the first mouthful.

With tea could be toast. The kind that comes spread with jam and butter for those watching the Grand Prix on a Sunday instead of eating lunch. I'm not hungry either but with tea it would be okay.

Tea and toast.

Did You Just Say You Have Toast?

Don't you just hate it when you want food but aren't at all hungry?

I really fancy toast with honey at the moment but there's nowhere to put it.