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Oh Mr Asda! With these special offers for the mathematically-challenged you are really spoiling us!

OK, so technically it isn’t measuring colour blindness, but rather your ability to sort colours by hue. This is a slightly interesting test, which isn’t completely scientific because it because it can’t take into account your monitor settings and capabilities, but is worth a go anyway. I scored 6, which is, apparently, somewhat excellent. Yay! Test your “Colour IQ” here.

Well, my wrist is. I’m partly blaming it on not fully recovering from Guitar Hero DS, but the rest is possibly due to sleeping on my hand at a funny angle or something.¬¨‚Ć My left wrist and little finger have been hurting for a week or so, but it’s been agony for the last couple of days. And now today, as if it was feeling left out, my right hand has started to ache. Maybe it’s because I’ve been compensating …

I’ve realised recently that I have some sort of obsessive compulsive disorder. Trivial OCD, yes, but it’s still there. It’s apparent in several ways: I can’t watch people at work use an interactive whiteboard if it isn’t exactly calibrated. Even if the pen and the on-screen pointer are merely millimetres out of alignment, it drives me up the wall. I genuinely can’t watch them operate it, and last week I actually stood up in the middle of a meeting, took …

Sort of, anyway. Remember a while back (just over a month ago, actually) when I posted this picture: Well, I came home from work today to find out what they’d done it for! This, in fact: Amazing. What a waste of time and money.

OK. I’m not sure of the point of this, but anyway: Look up your birthday in Wikipedia. Pick 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday. May 15th Events 1718 – James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents the world’s first machine gun. 1756 – The Seven Years’ War begins when England declares war on France. 1940 – World War II: After fierce fighting, the poorly trained and equipped Dutch troops surrender to Germany, marking the beginning of five years …

My baby brother is getting married next weekend. Again. He actually got married a couple of months ago, eloping to Canada with his then-bride-to-be, but he’s having a wedding blessing with vow renewal ceremony in this country on Saturday. I thought they only renewed wedding vows in Neighbours, but it would appear I was mistaken! Anyway, I’ve been asked to be his Best Man. After all, I am a Man, and I am Best, so it makes sense. It’s not …

I came home yesterday to find the council marking the pavement behind my Allocated Parking Space(TM) with yellow paint. They’d done the same down the street. What are they up to? On a related note, why are half the roads in Norwich currently, and somewhat suddenly, being resurfaced?

That’s right. I bought a music download. OK, so technically, I’ve done this before (Virgin Media gave me ¬¨¬£50 credit at Music Choice), but that doesn’t count as it wasn’t my money. And what did I buy? This:

At Pop on the Wii, on advanced mode. However, my time of 84 minutes is somewhat longer than the top score of around a minute and a half.  Clearly some cheating going on.

I’ve suddenly had a big influx of visitors, due to the Orange Balloon Race thing currently going on. That’s what the floating raccoon thing was for in the bottom right corner of my site. So hello to all those passing through! I’m in the race myself, as you can see: