I don’t usually watch the show but found myself in front of it last night. Kinda boring, no controversy to spice it up, not enough statues to Brits. But I did want to complain about Chris Rock. First, why the hell did everyone give him a standing ovation just for walking on stage? And whats the deal with the anti-Bush jokes in his opening monologue? I’m no fan of Bush but this is supposed to be entertainment, just because you’re a “celebrity” and have a captive audience doesn’t mean you should use it a platform for your views. Its just poor taste for the host to do it. Another low light - Dustin Hoffman presenting best film; was he drunk? high? asleep?? Way to spoil the big announcement, Dustin.

But there were some highlights: Natalie Portman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kirsten Dunst and Halle Berry were all mighty fine!

One casualty of the recent rains has been poor Santa Paula airport. As the following picture shows, you’d better have very good short field landing techniques to land there right now, or maybe deployable floats?

My mum has been diagnosed with a brain tumour.

In order to transition into Wordpress 1.5 I am introducing a new blog to the guapacha family - my flying blog, though the URL will be shortened once I get it all working how I want it. For now, there is nothing there but the first post. Over the next few days I shall be experimenting with themes to provide a custom look, or at least a look based on someone else’s theme :) Once I understand what’s going on, look for updates to guapacha and miniblog. Can you feel the excitement?

Click here if you want to see screenshots of the upcoming Star Wars 3 movie. It looks sweet. Update: link is no longer available.

And some sweet new iPods. Update: I’m sure gonna get me one of them there 30G ones. But the mall car park where the Apple Store is located is currently underwater so I will have to wait a while.

I’ll be upgrading to Wordpress 1.5 soon so don’t panic if this site becomes even more useless than it currently is.