robinturner | It's going to be a long night

Having got up at an unusually early hour for me (see previous post), I now find I have to stay up till 4 a.m. to tape the last episode in this series of Angel. It's normally on at 8 p.m., but the in-laws were over, and father-in-law wanted to watch a match. No problem, I thought, we can do some male bonding, then I can tape the late night/early morning version, forgetting, of course, that on the nights when I stay up till four, I haven't been up since dawn (well not really dawn, but hey, it would have been dawn if this had been December instead of July).

I decided to while away the time by signing up for Instant Messaging with Yahoo. I'd been avoiding them since they took over Geocities and screwed it up, and because of rumours that they were passing on personal information to third parties. Looking at their new site, I decided that their new privacy policy looked acceptable, and thought also that if a number of Linux IM clients were supporting Yahoo, it was probably OK (Linux users are paranoid about security stuff).

Well, that was certainly a way to kill time. I've spent the last half hour trying to register with Yahoo, to no avail, the main problem being that they don't seem to recognise Turkey as a country. East Timor, yes; Turkey, no. I suppose I could enter UK with my British postcode, but why should I bother. And their CGI sucks.

So for the time being, anyone who wants to IM me will have to do so through either
ICQ: 154306773, or
AIM: solriN

I've set myself to "available" (sounds sexy), so you can help keep me awake until Angel comes on.