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The Big 10 Oh-Oh-Oh…

It’s just as well that Rob pointed it out, or I might have missed out on celebrating my 10,000th day birthday. If that’s not enough to make you feel old on a random wintery day in March, then I don’t know what is.

Oh, I see that Glasto ticket details are up on the website. Basically as you were (Sunday April 3rd, 9AM, Aloud “Sorry we are experiencing Technical Difficulties, please Try Again Later” .com, and the expected price increase), but one bit of added hassle (for me at least) is the new ID requirements: it’s photo ID this year, but as a non-driver, the only form of acceptable ID I can produce is some silly Blanketts-esque Citizen Card thing that I’d have to apply for.

(Insert your own joke here about the irony of Glastonbury of all places pushing the whole entitlement card thing–perhaps I could organise a ceremonial burning of the cards once everyone has gained entry to the festival). And I don’t suppose there’s a Doctor, Solicitor or Civil Servant reading who could act as a referee for me…

I’ve also been browsing the logs again. Yes, I know that’s always makes a poor, lazy excuse for a blog (ah, but isn’t this always…), and only one step above just writing blogs all the time apologising for not writing any new blogs, but it does provide consistent amusement. From yesterday’s log file, I can see that Paste is being hammered again by the poker comment spam idiots (none of which is thankfully making it anywhere near the site), but there are some revealing search gems in amongst all the Texas hold em crap. Yesterday:
– at least two of the original contributors to the magazine independently googled themselves
– someone was looking for “the fish shop in Islington” (well I hope they found what they were looking for…)
– assorted other people were after “Victorian morals AND breasts“, “cartoon orang utangs“, and “merged photos of john lennon and jacky chan
– and finally, my favourite: someone wondered “who is writing David Hasselhoff reviews amazon“. Ok, I admit it, it was me all along. All 1000 of them.