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D/l'd firefox 3 at work (laptop screwing up too much last night to even contemplate doing owt odd - when I re-started it it bloody went and re-loaded *saturday*'s session, so had to go through all the history and open everything that looked vaguely okay. Tonight, going through and closing all the duplicates and everything I know I've read...). it is indeed shinier and faster. However, dislike the default skin, so went and browsed the themes. And we loves Firefox's efficiency - you go to the themes page, and only the ones compatible with v3.0 have a highlighted button. :happy sigh: Streamlining. It's a beautiful thing.

Finally getting round to properly listening to Amy Winehouse's 'Frank' (first album) so I can go through it and delete the tracks I dislike/go 'meh'. Quite a different album to 'Back to Black' - hasn't quite found her own sound yet, and you can hear lots of influences. Occasionally you hear bits that sound like her later stuff, but then the rest of the song gets overwhelmed by some other influence (e.g. obviously Sade, obviously traces of Manhattan Transfer, breathy girl band, etc) and most of it's *way* too light/breathy/high. Lyrics seem to be where she was doing well. So far the only ones I really like are 'Cherry' and 'Amy Amy Amy'.

And now thinking - what albums come under the 'everyone's heard/owns' banner?

'Back to Black' was bloody *everywhere* last year.
Prodigy's 'Fat of the Land' back in... '01 was it?
Massive Attack 'Mezzanine'.

oh, there's awesome and there's awesome : Master and Doctor to 'Girlfriend' ...I need this track in my life. WHY DON'T I HAVE IT?

And of course, right in the middle of getting some more plot/vague writey bit for the endlessly on the back-burner Jack and Ianto 30s timeslip fic (which sadly seems to be getting further and further away from the original Jeeves pastiche - maybe I should finish this *then* write an AU crossover scene) I get a bunny for a torchwood Cardiff WWI ficlet (tw_history 'in absentia' challenge pimppimpimp) which is now 80% written, or at least 50% plotted out on paper, 30% in head that now just needs tidying/tweaking.

For all of those who're fans of Tosh and get frustrated over how little screentime she gets, I present Whatever happened to Tosh's Part?, a fanvid set to a song from Spamalot. It is al kinds of awesome with fabulous clip choices and editing.

Huh. Today appears to to be the day for highly amusing torchwood fanvids : Bad Touch, Jack/Ianto.

First, fangirls watching Utopia. it is of the squee. :g: Go on. Deny that you did this. We won't believe you.

In other news? Further adventures of our landlord is a fuckwit. We're all moving out. For definite. Only one of us has actually confirmed this with the landlord, though. So, picture this, if you will.

He's already started advertising the flat to new tenants. As a whole, not room by room as it was previously.

And has he told any of us he'd be doing this?

Nope. nada. nuh-uh. I'd had a call from him - at least I presume it was him, since he's the only person I know who calls me and comes up as 'Anonymous' at 3pm when I was in a meeting. No attempt to contact anyone else.

We found this out when I'd been home ten minutes, and Anna was making noises about going out soon. Knock on door, buncha students there to see flat. Us : '....Huh?' Let them in, though, showed 'em round, gave full truth about the place and area. When they left, I phoned him, left message that was quite polite. But pointed out that at the very least it was irresponsible to be advertising a place when you hadn't even ascertained that anyone would be in (he doesn't live in London), didn't tell us you were doing this, and that it is not our job to do it. Wish I'd remembered to also point out that we're not legally obliged to let 'em in. Nor is he allowed to let anyone view it without our consent before the contract's up.

Seriously. Fuckwit.

ETA : it turns out that it was the letting agent who did this - Rachid literally just called me to say he was going to be arranging viewings and when would be good for us. Informed him that he better damn well chew the letting agent a new one.

Also? Another rec : Stalking 101. Mostly Tosh and Ianto. and what nefarious plans Ianto has. GLEEEEEEE. There's also a prequel focussing on Tosh and something mentioned in the other fic.