If someone were to ask me today for one piece of advice, I would gift them with the following piece of knowledge:

Always check the scent of your shower-gel before you purchase it.

I forgot to do that last time I went shopping and this morning I found myself emerging from the shower emanating a subtle fragrance of apricots.

I loathe the smell of apricots.

Normally, having a shower is one of the highlights of my day – at least, it gets my day off to a good start. Today though it was ruined by the sickly sweet aroma of apricots.

Damn.

So, just a tip – check before you buy!

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Miracles will never cease.
I am sitting here with a full, yes that is full second draft of the thesis.

In case you didn’t here me properly just then over my shrieks of jubilation, I am sitting here looking in blank bewilderment at upwards of 35,000 words that I wrote myself about how archaeologists and wikis could be a match made in heaven (or not, but that would be telling 😉 ).

Yes, after six months, the thing that has literally broken me into a useless puddle of uselessness is very nearly finished.

Now I’ve just got to go and make it 15,000 words fewer (that’s what appendices are for 😉 ) and check that in my insanity I haven’t concluded by calling my supervisor a penguin or something.

Looks like I will be handing it in for Christmas after all.

Don’t look at me like that! It could happen.

Wow. Moving your blog to a new domain is one sure fire way of completely removing your presence from the web. In one fell swoop, my Google page rank has dropped from a slightly-alive 3 to a very-very dead zero. Ditto my Technorati presence (9 to nil).

This is a general call to everyone out there – if you have a link to me please can you update it? It’s most likely going to be in a linkroll you’ve forgotten about, or on some ‘about’ page.

I’m not saying that I used to have a *large* web presence, but, well, I wouldn’t mind getting back to where I was before 🙂

Ok, how many people live in Antarctica? Seriously, I am curious, because my host-stats include a breakdown of traffic from the continent of Antarctica. Not surprisingly, I have no people visiting me from Antarctica. I have one person from Nambia, another from the Sudan, and 6 from Uruguay (I like the name of Uruguay), but none from the frozen polar wastes. Odd, that. The Arctic doesn’t have a column, so why should the Antarctic?

If, by some very very odd coincidence, I now have readers reading this from some Antarctic research station, then hello! I was wrong, quite clearly. Oh, and can you get me a picture of some penguins?

I just have to say, I love stylesheets and CSS.

Altered two variables, and voila. Pinkness reigns.

(If you are reading this in the archives, read the comments on this linked to post. Somebody dared me that I wouldn’t do something… So I made it look all nice and pink. For a time.)

I was pondering what to blog about today, especially after I Mini Meadowed (see the side bar) the news about the webcam, then I open up the inbox and see that we have some Blog Minion news:

RIB for this: . I’ve no idea what he was looking for when he stumbled across it, and frankly I’m not too sure I want to know, but find it he did.

JB is reaffirming his Minion credentials with this: Taking Fat Penguins for a walk.

Both of, congratulations on being the first Minions of the new site 🙂 Have a button:

The webcam arrived today! Hurray for Amazon Marketplace! Cas is now one very happy bunny (and the Cute Canadian is rather pleased as well 😉 )