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I’m now officially moved into my new flat, which is located in a funny area of new york that can’t make up its mind whether or not it’s Soho, Little Italy or China town. Walking around it seems like every street has a different cultural leaning, some of them are just Vietnamese restaurants, and then you turn a corner and you’re confronted with green white and red poles and you know you just walked into Little Italy.

By the way, the flat is massive and has a spare room for visitors. Hint hint.

The other day I made a trip to Ikea and bought a whole bunch of furniture which was delivered yesterday, which meant that I spent the majority of yesterday sitting on the floor building, in order, a bed side table, a chest of draws and then a bed. I now considered myself a skilled carpenter of jesus like proportions. Admittedly I slept a little uneasily last night as I had a funny feeling that my bed might collapse at any moment in a cloud of sawdust, but thankfully it all held together and I’m still alive and not missing any limbs.

With Argos and the US Embassy in first and second place I would rate Ikea as my third least favourite place in the world. In my own personal hell I would spend eternity endlessly visiting these horrible establishments with a short gap in between where I would have to assemble all the furniture I was forced to purchase.

This article about a jewish basketball team having to forfeit a final due to the sabbath caught my attention:

If Herzl/RMHA makes it to the regional championship and refuses to play a Saturday game, another school would be chosen to take its place, CHSAA commissioner Bill Reader said.

Since when are jews good at ball sports? This is indeed news to me.

So my new computer has finally arrived and I’ve spent the last few days playing around with it and setting it all up to my liking, which explains the lack of updates, or maybe I’m doing what I do every year which is start blogging then give up a week or two in.

So yeah, it’s fast. Very very fast. And thanks to a co-worker and an msdn subscription I’m also dual booting vista (a topic for another blog post) and have a windows virtual machine all set up for doing windows development so I’m covering all possible bases. Needless to say I’m very happy.

In other news: Ex-Homecoming Queen Beats Sister With Fake Leg In Trailer

NORTH HUNTINGDON, Pa. - A former homecoming queen is facing a slew of charges Thursday, accused of attacking her sister with a prosthetic leg and then threatening to burn down a neighbor’s home.

Craziest news article ever? I think so.

• Testicle Attack
• One expectation per test

Maybe I should start publishing these with delicious.

Here are a couple of links that might brighten up your monday:

• A hell of a joke…
• And in today’s news

I find the recent news article about a trader at soc gen defrauding the bank for €4.9 billion absolutely incredible. How are these losses not noticed earlier?

PARIS, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Societe Generale (SOGN.PA: Quote, Profile, Research) has uncovered a fraud by one of its traders which will have a 4.9- billion-euro-($7.16 billion) negative impact on the group, France’s second-largest listed bank said on Thursday.

Working in Canary Wharf in a mixed blessing, the place is pretty cool and can be quite lively, but at the same time it has a tendency to be sterile. Having worked there now for almost a year and a half I’ve become pretty bored of the place, the same eateries every day, etc… I really miss working in Soho, which has awesome restaurants, parks, squares and a more arty fun way of life.

But the worst part of life in the wharf is the Jubilee line, which seems to me to be a hot spot for people jumping on the tracks. Almost every day you’re faced with either minor or major delays and packed tubes. Thankfully I have various tech podcasts and movies on my iPod touch to get me through the boredom, which used to be filled by reading metro or london lite, but I get my news from more… reliable sources. I do miss Nemi but you can get that online.