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Japan beat Denmark to get through to the last 16 in football (soccer) World Cup. Great game. Honda was fantastic.

Wife (and me) very happy.

“Akira” is getting the live-action big screen treatment courtesy of Leonardo DiCaprio

Why, what is the point? Nothing against DiCaprio, I just can’t see why this needs to be turned into a live-action film.
It may well turn out to be OK, but it certainly won’t be a revelation of a film.

Meanwhile in China

Ahh, good old football rivals… looks like it was a bad-tempered game with China-Japan. (Japan won 0-1… woohoo).

For once, we had good weather on Bank (Public) Holiday weekend. Fantastic.

Saturday was spent down in Cardiff Bay. Yuko and I were not overly impressed to be honest. The Millennium Centre is quite an impressive piece of architecture, and there happened to be a small market on there… but that was it really. The rest just seemed to be over-priced restaurants.

Sunday and Monday was spent back at my folks place, where we enjoyed a rather big BBQ with the parents and sister, bro-in-law and niece.

Soon, the World Cup is upon us… and Bogue found this rather amusing little video about “Football/Soccer vs Rugby”

Soccer

Well, later tonight (tomorrow morning at 01:00 to be pedantic), Australia play Italy in the Football (Soccer) World Cup. Atmosphere in Melbourne should be electric. Yuko and I feel a little tired, so the plan to go down Federation Square has been put off. But, we’ll stay up for the game, and if Australia win, we’ll immediatly head outside to soak up some atmosphere!

That’s screwed up

You do have to wonder about the state of Japan at the moment. Mind you, I guess all countries have their problems. Aussie will have plenty of water problems in the future. Britain will disintegrate into a seething mess of racial disharmony! Aren’t I a cheerful chap

Interesting, from a boring work point of view

Well, as far as my line of work is concerned, this was a VERY interesting story.

The cult of Mac

Looks like Yuko has given me permission to get a Mac. We’ll probably get it just before we leave Australia (that way, I can get the tax deducted). May have to get one of these bad boys with a 7200rpm HDD and 2Gb drive. So… anyone want to buy a 3 year old Compaq Laptop (40Gb, 1Gb RAM, UK spec)?