,03:55 p.m., Friday, August 31, 2001
There will be a journal entry up in the next 10 minutes or so. And then I'm going home to get ready for the weekend.

Have a good one. And sign my guestbook while I'm gone? I'm getting paranoid again ;p

,03:26 p.m., Friday, August 31, 2001
An interesting article about the respective opinions of the Norwegians and Australians about the refugees on the Tampa.

If you want to try and make a difference, go to HRN and go to the link in the first comment on this item - you can email the Australian Prime Minister and put pressure on him to change his mind.

,02:39 p.m., Friday, August 31, 2001
Milosevic is to be charged with genocide. He still refuses to recognise the legitimacy of the war crimes tribunal, and argued so long that the judge turned his microphone off.

What an evil... person.

,01:01 p.m., Friday, August 31, 2001
Following my journal entry from yesterday. I think she's been using my shampoo too. And my facewash. Now shampoo is one thing, it's only a cheap one and you need to wash your hair. But my facewash is expensive (comparatively... regular readers will know I object to spending a lot of money on these things) and as far as I'm concerned, if you're broke you go with the lowest common denomonater. Ergo, if you need to wash your face - ask permission to use someone's facewash, or USE THE SOAP.

,11:42 a.m., Friday, August 31, 2001
Go read Jo's Backwash column. Because it touched me dammit.

,05:10 p.m., Thursday, August 30, 2001
Go read Miyu's article about tampons. And then tell all your friends to read it too. And talk about your periods, if you're female. Ask about your female friends' if you're male. Help bring down the conspiracy of secrecy that surrounds periods.

,03:44 p.m., Thursday, August 30, 2001
All look same? I scored 6. Better than average.

I obviously know more than I think. I think random chance would only have got me about 2 points.

I feel vaguely bad about this on one level, but why? I can't put my finger on it. And as the website says: alllooksame isn't a statement. It's a question.

,02:55 p.m., Thursday, August 30, 2001
New journal entry. Sorry I've been neglecting it. But I think I've longed for privacy. Under the circumstances.

And I've been scared that if I start letting my feelings out I'll end up shouting at her.

,02:22 p.m., Thursday, August 30, 2001
It seems like Microsoft's at it again.

,10:24 a.m., Thursday, August 30, 2001
I've just seen one of the 'people in charge' here. He was wearing shorts and a jumper.

Jumper = cold weather. Shorts = hot weather. Make your bloody mind up....

,09:56 a.m., Thursday, August 30, 2001
The refugees are still out there.

I made an entry at HRN yesterday about this. If you're interested pop over there. And if you want to email the Australian Prime Minister you can do so here.

,09:53 a.m., Thursday, August 30, 2001
I can't believe that this is only just coming out into the open. It looks like 35 people might have died just because the MoD wanted to see if they could make it rain. The least they could have done was admitted they might have played a part.

,05:13 p.m., Wednesday, August 29, 2001
According to this article, almost a quarter of women would try to get pregnant behind their partner's back.

Even if I don't think much of this survey - surveys that magazines compile always are self-selecting as the magazines will always have a target audience - I think that's quite a scary statistic. It's not fair. So either you trap him into staying with you, or he leaves. And who could blame him. Accidents are one thing - you can discuss this and come to a decision. Deliberate planning is another thing entirely.

The rest of the statistics are just a bit of a waste of time. Would you stay with your bloke if he totally lost interest in sex? Would you forgive him if he whispered an ex's name during sex? Would you let your partner sleep with another woman if you got £50,00 from it?

I don't really care, as long as you're happy. The proportions don't interest me, but individual answers say a lot about you. I'm curious. If enough people tell me their answers, I might even divulge my own....

,05:11 p.m., Wednesday, August 29, 2001
Ever wondered why the international community jumps in incredibly fast when atrocities and genocide are happening in some countries, yet when they happened in Rwanda, nothing was done? This article dicusses some of the reasons.

,04:19 p.m., Tuesday, August 28, 2001
And a couple of sites I found today - both from vipe.org.

Mirrorwarp and pissed off women both seem to be interesting sites. Worth a read.

,03:55 p.m., Tuesday, August 28, 2001
Good weekend. Had a bbq Saturday. My cousin came up for it and a load of my sister's friends were there. We sat in the sun in the back garden and drink and ate. It was good. And Paul met my grandparents and I saw an aunt and uncle I'd not seen in two years. Sunday night we went to a pub quiz. The team was called 'Beth's our secret weapon', because the week before Lorna had sent me text messages to ask for answers and I'd come up with some of them.

We didn't win. Ah well.

Anyway. Are men brain damaged before birth? It's not a man bashing thing, but a serious consideration about whether men's brains are damaged by testosterone before birth. Interesting, and stolen from Jo's backwash column.

It'd be asking for trouble to state which password group I fall into. But the snippet is interesting, anyway.

The answerphone in our work does this too!! I've always wondered why. It's creepy.

And I thought this might be interesting to some of you.