...and relax

With thanks entirely and gratefully due to the geekability and kindness of kneeshooter, I now have *nearly* all of my photos from Cologne again. Some of the files are a bit corrupted and have had to be cropped a lot, and some of the pictures are ones that I took a better one of which hasn't been saved, but most of the memories are there.

Will sort them out and post them soon.

The good thing about the God of Trifling Misfortune...

...is that he can piss you off, upset you, make you utterly fed up - *to a certain extent* - last night's memory card fiasco a case in point. But these things are of very little importance. An esteemed colleague's cat was run over and killed yesterday evening. This evening, Mab is currently curled up in my lap. Biting me. Poor wee Moo. There's another star up in Cat Heaven tonight.

It looks like a gun...it smells like a gun...

Yet another article about a potential crackdown on the sale of replica guns (mostly airsoft), focusing on how similar the replicas are to the real thing - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4072244.stm - included the paragraphs:

Staring down the barrel of a replica gun, it is easy to understand how terrifying these "toys" can be.

The number of firearms offences involving imitations rose 66% in 2004, while the use of real shotguns, handguns and rifles fell markedly.

Police officers believe that criminals who might previously have used knives in robberies are now choosing replica guns instead, while many youths see them as a status symbol.

Is is just me, or if you were the victim of an armed robery, would you prefer the assailant to be packing a replica weapon rather than a real gun or a knife???