There are people that think that Dumbledore enabled Harry to figure out how the Mirror of Erised worked so that he'd know what to do with it later. Which is a little silly. Because Dumbledore designed the challenge at the end so that Voldemort/Quirrell couldn't get it. If Harry hadn't come along it would have been safe until Dumbledore returned from London. So Harry nearly ruined everything.

Of course it's all completely silly.

Actually I saw this meme from Karla, thought I'd do it, noticed there was stuff missing from it, googled it for other versions, found more, and found the Chinese whispers effect that memes undergo. People change little bits to suit themselves. So now I'm merging two together. The other is from here.

10 Favorites.

1. Favorite Color: Aqua
   
2. Favorite Food: Roast Pork
   
3. Favorite Song: hrm tough one. Maybe Pressure by Billy Joel, We Didn't Start the Fire by Billy Joel, Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, Ray of Light by Madonna.. lots though
   
4. Favorite Movie: Also variable. Labyrinth and Peter Pan were both long time favourites.
   
5. Favorite Sport: er. not really into sports.
   
6. Favorite Season: Spring
   
7. Favorite Day Of the Week: Saturday
   
8. Favorite Ice Cream Flavor: Mint
   
9. Favorite Alcoholic Drink: Baileys
   
10. Favorite Word: Antidisestablishmentarianism. Or Mystical.
    

9 Currents.

1. Current Mood: Light
   
2. Current Taste: Cointreau
   
3. Current Clothes: Jeans and a t-shirt
   
4. Current Desktop Picture: Stu!
   
5. Current Hair Color: blonde
   
6. Current Time: 19:54
   
7. Current Surroundings: my study
   
8. Current Annoyance(s): lazy neighbors that dump rubbish *in front of* the bins
   
9. Current Craving: mmmm stu ;)
   

8 Firsts.

1. First Best Friend: Donna Bonnefin, from Kindy to about year 2. Then she dumped me for Kerry Williams.
   
2. First Kiss: Charles, at the National Science Summer School in Canberra in 1991. I've never seen him since.
   
3. First Screen Name: Kazza
   
4. First Pet: Bluey, a budgie, I got for my 7th birthday
   
5. First Piercing: my ears, in 1988
   
6. First Crush: dunno. Maybe Mr Jirsa my maths teacher in year 7
   
7. First CD: the Labyrinth soundtrack (I didn't actually own a cd player at the time)
   
8. First Car: a brown 1984 Ford Laser. It was kidnapped and murdered in 2001.
   

7 Lasts.

1. Last Cigarette: Never had one :)
   
2. Last alcoholic beverage: Cointreau, just now
   
3. Last Car Ride: well my drive home from work just now. Last time I was in a car and someone else was driving was on the way home the other night and Stu drove my car for a bit.
   
4. Last Kiss: Stu on Tuesday night
   
5. Last Movie Seen: at the movies would have been Serenity
   
6. Last Phone Call: some telemarketer when I got home tonight
   
7. Last CD played: my cd player is on random, but the last cd I put in a player and played all the way through was Symphony No 3 by Camille Saint-Saens
   

6 Have You Evers.

1. Have You Ever Dated One Of Your Best Friends: well no, although the person I've dated has *become* my best friend
   
2. Have You Ever Broken the Law: yes
   
3. Have You Ever Been Arrested: no
   
4. Have You Ever Skinny Dipped: yes
   
5. Have You Ever Been on TV: yes, a few times
   
6. Have You Ever Been in love: yes
   

5 Things.

1. 5 Things You're Wearing: jeans, t-shirt, glasses, underwear, shoes (soon to be removed)
   
2. 5 Things You Did Yesterday: went to work, blogged, talked to Stu, watched a very cool episode of House, watched some scary medical shows
   
3. 5 Things You Can't Live Without: Stu, the internet, my computer (or *a* computer), food/drink/air, God
   
4. 5 Things You Can Hear Right Now: the tv (Survivor), fish tanks bubbling and powering, the keyboard, my feed reader bleeping, crickets or cicadas outside
   
5. 5 Things You Do When Your bored: Use the internet, play puzzle type games, clean my flat, watch videos, play my recorder(s)
   

4 Places You've Been To.

1. America (3 times)
   
2. Canada
   
3. New Zealand
   
4. lots of places in Australia
   

3 People You Can Tell *Almost* Anything To (in no particular order).

1. Stu
   
2. Luc
   
3. James
   

2 Choices.

1. Black or White: White
   
2. Hot or Cold: Cold
   

1 Wish.

1. That I could fly :)
   

Still torn. Craig or John. Find out soon.

8:36pm. It was John. Didn't surprise me. Actually one thing I forgot to mention last week, and it turned out to be possibly significant, was that John was in the back row of every single voting session. It makes sense for him to have been in the back row, because he would have gotten the answers right all the time, and they wouldn't have wanted people looking over his shoulder copying.

So anyway, congrats to Liz :)

Went and saw Fiddler on the Roof tonight with my uncle and aunty. It was a great show, very well done. My uncle somehow managed to get front row seats on the internet, which meant we were literally about three metres away from Topol! Although sadly he is getting old (he's like 70!) and he just didn't have the *energy* anymore. His voice was still good, but there didn't seem to be a passion there. My uncle noticed it too, and we both thought it was a little disappointing :(

But it was a great night out. I sang along to myself, but quietly, resisting the urge to sing along out loud heh :) And good to find more people to be able to go out and do this sort of thing with :):)

I swear I should start a tech blog. Or at least a category in my main blog for tech stuff. And it wouldn't be the first time people have ended up at my blog for search terms like "upgrading emm 360 cards".

Today I want to be the only webpage in the world have "ITAdminServer" in it. Or even "ITAdminServ". ITAdminServer.exe is a process in BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES). So if BlackBerry administrators see this process running on their machines, well that's what it is. It's the "BlackBerry Policy Service", or so it seems :)

Traffic sucked this morning. A few drops of rain and moronic people forget how to drive.

Work was ok. Spent a fair chunk of the day redoing a bunch of webtrends reports that I'd accidently let get overwritten with the current quarters reports.

Spent the evening catching up on the Mole (I was thinking for a while it was Liz, but Craig is certainly up there, it'll be one of them for sure I reckon), and Millionaire to watch the dude finally win it all, and sorting out 800 photos I've taken in the past six weeks, and cutting down over 400 wedding photos to 247 for uploading to conspiracy.

So we had the third birthday party for my brother today. This time a surprise party with mostly train type people (and the family). Even though Dave apparently saw the early formulations of the Dave30 mailing list, he claimed it was still a surprise. Which was pretty cool :)

7kg of meat between 12 people later and I was feeling rather full on a lunch of steak, sausage, pork rissole, chicken breast (marinated) and two slices of pineapple. After all that I didn't quite feel up to eating any salad :) Forced myself to eat a handful of peas and corn tonight just so that I don't wake up at 5am starving.

Also this morning I downloaded 500 photos off three memory cards taken in the past two weeks. Over 400 at the wedding yesterday alone! I really am a sad case.

Friday and Saturday night's drinking meant I've had two rather crappy nights sleep. That and a very social weekend being out for most of it. I was feeling a bit grumpy and down most of the afternoon, thinking perhaps from lack of good sleep. Feeling a bit better after some quiet time at the computer, but about to go to bed and have an early night.

Is it just me or has there been a marked increase in medical shows in the past few years? I, personally am fascinated by them. My favourite show for a long time was ER, but shows like Nip/Tuck, House, RPA, Amazing Medical Stories etc grip me. But they also scare me. Well sorta. Nip/Tuck was enough to turn me off plastic surgery (which I'd never been interested in anyway, but the procedures are positively *brutal*). In fact all surgery looks brutal. The idea if people cutting into me and poking at me and drilling holes and using screwdrivers, for heavens sake, is rather repulsive. And then there's the cancer stories and stories of what could happen when things just go *wrong* with bodies. And I'm not afraid for myself. I'm afraid of what might happen if a loved one (specifically Stu at this point) had a terminal disease or a life-threatening injury. The thought is terrifying. Have I ever mentioned I'm rather fond of Stu? Sorry, have had one too many beers I think :)

Neil tagged me with this the other day. The 23rd post meme.

This was in my TopStuff blog, but I'm nuking it, so moving it here.

Just a few of my favourite things :)
This was compiled from stacks of online quizzes, and then sorted into some sort of category order.