So, “we got him”. I guess this is one of those days when we’re supposed to remember where we were when we heard the news. Where were you when they captured Saddam Hussein in a hole in the ground? Well I was in my bedroom watching BBC News 24 on my computer. How interesting.<\/p>\n
I have to admit I found the scenes of celebrating Iraqis in the streets quite emotional. News like that doesn’t usually effect me very much, it’s in a different world, the other side of my TV with little resemblence to reality in my sheltered understanding of the word. But something about this event struck a chord with me. Perhaps it was just clever journalism – making me believe that something truly spectacular had happened that meant I should back my primeminister. But there was something bare and real about the reactions of the Iraqis at the press conference to the news and video footage – something that brought a tear to my eye and made me take a look at my own position in the world. Then again, I have been drinking quite a lot today…<\/p>\n
I got an email from Peter today. Remember Peter? He’s the crazy loon who took off to India on a “life experiment” and is still there! (I wonder if you’re reading this Peter) The amazing stories of his adventures on the other side of the world only added to this odd feeling I was experiencing.<\/p>\n
Anyway, on a lighter note dev went down today for the first serious downtime in a couple of years. Took about 6 hours for mchicago<\/a> to fix and he still doesn’t know what exactly caused it. Got it working again though, so well done him.<\/p>\n Had a meal with my grandparents and family in the Nags Head, very nice. Lovely baileys liquer coffee, mmm. Later I went to the christmas pub quiz in Dyke but we were abandoned by Mr C and managed to lose! We did win a mini bottle of wine for one round though, which will be taken to Megabite 2003 next week (it’s this week now isn’t it?).<\/p>\n Something else happened too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, “we got him”. I guess this is one of those days when we’re supposed to remember where we were when we heard the news. Where were you when they captured Saddam Hussein in a hole in the ground? Well I was in my bedroom watching BBC News 24 on my computer. How interesting. I … Continue reading An odd feeling<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}