Just Say No. So glad I’m working from home tomorrow and seeing the osteopath. Came home early from Retro, cos I wasn’t really in the mood and was rather tired (despite there being cool people there I’d not seen in ages. And Fruitbat ). Got a nice big hug from Scott, anyways. Got sidetracked by Anatomy for Beginners again. Très cool, and that live model is SO cute. Today was the GI tract, though they didn’t make him show us his anus, bless ’im. Then Desperate Housewives on E4+1. That show is utterly fantastic; and it would seem that the psychotic mother is actually really sweet, I’ve really warmed to him. I think NTL should carry HBO. And S4C Digidol, natch. Great adbreak: weird to say, but cool FilmFour ad and an ad for a cool-looking compilation album. And Point Pleasant is on now — Marti Noxon’s new project — it’s looking wonderfully dark. Which reminds me: I must watch those episodes of Carnivàle and Lost that I got. Gonna buy the Carnivàle s1 DVD soon, but I must be good for a while yet. Chatted briefly with Des, on his new phone. He sounds good, but is missing me (shocker). Gonna have to make sure he’s out on Friday. It’s been too long since I saw him. Got told off at work earlier for trying to skew Audioscrobbler towards good tracks (Depeche Mode’s /Enjoy the Silence/, remixed by Mike Shinoda). Damn, foiled again! NO2ID core board tomorrow. Not quite sure what to report, as the database is nearly there, but we can’t get it installed quite yet. On the plus side, though, the Home Secretary’s local council (Norwich City Council; he’s the MP for UEA, my alma mater ) have passed a deeply cool anti-ID Cards motion. Not only are they affiliating, but they also resolved: to make it a policy of the council to ensure that national identity cards would not be required to access council services or benefits unless specifically called to do so by Act of Parliament; and only [to] co-operate with the national identity card scheme where to do otherwise would be unlawful; So deeply cool. Especially that first one, as the Identity Cards Bill provides only for the introduction of compulsion in council-offered services by statutory instrument, not by enactment. As well as Norwich, Oxford City Council have passed a very similar motion and, tonight, The Borough’s motion only fell by one vote (I’m a little disappointed in the Lib Dem one-vote majority, but it’s great that it was even close to passing). Local Government turning against the government; wonderful. Pissed off with the Tories’ attempts to racialise the Elections. Either way it’s bad: if it works, then we’re living in even worse a state than I thought; if it fails (even if their vote is split to UKIP and the BNP), then Labour are still gonna end up with a massive majority. I still think my favorite result would be a minority Labour government that requires them to sell out to the Lib Dems on PR (and, if I wanna dream, with STV; maybe I should write an STV app as a C# learning exercise). At least then we wouldn’t get any of this shitty bipartisan nonsense, where everything is one-upmanship and manichæan, with no room for reasoned, argued compromise. The death of the party whipping system would suit me better, in which case the government couldn’t rely on their stupid majority in order to rush through poorly-thought-out legislation. ID cards at the moment; Clarke’s fascist counter-terrorism plans soon. Ok, so they repeal the suspension of habeas corpus after a fashion, but derogating from the ECHR again in order to permit the introduction of house arrest without trial. Sometimes I wonder what the fuck is going on with Anglo-Saxon democracies at the moment. Thank fuck for the Québecois, who must be what’s responsible for making Canada sane, I guess. Anyways, working from home tomorrow doesn’t mean not wor