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As I’ve explained before, I have my reasons for posting stuff on here. Mostly, I treat it as a brief break from work (I’m sure there’s some kind of inverse correlation between the quality of my posts and how hard I’m working/how busy I am), an opportunity to try (and mostly fail, I suppose) to be funny, and an excuse to write something more interesting than technical documentation. Yes, believe it or not, that is possible. When you’ve spent the last 4 hours trawling through 3 different sets of conflicting review comments on a document you wrote 2 weeks ago and can’t really remember, trying to work out what to change and what to ignore, anything is more interesting. The writing might not be top notch, but it’s healthier than going out for a ciggie.

Anyway, I don’t really think about the fact that there’s anyone out there reading this. I mean, I know there is a select group of regular readers – you know who you are – but I don’t really think about you (believe it or not, that’s a plural “you” as well, although it’s still probably under double figures) when deciding what to write. It’s more a case of, if you like it/find it interesting/want to come back and keep reading, then great. If you don’t, I don’t care. Go away and read rob’s weblog instead.

Where was I? Oh yes, getting to the point. Today I had two separate sets of comments on this post. Pete, quite rightly, points out that Ticketmaster are providing a good service and that I shouldn’t complain. He’s probably right – I wasn’t really moaning though, I just thought it was amusing that they were prepared to phone everyone up, after they had already been in touch by other means. I also wanted to point out that it’s a 5,000 capacity venue. They’re only contacting the person who bought the tickets, but it’s still a couple of thousand phone calls.

On the other hand, Rob wrote to comment on the band I’m seeing. Yes, ok, I’m seeing the counting crows, I admit it. I also admit that I deliberately didn’t mention the band earlier in a vain bid to maintain some kind of credibility (did I say I didn’t think about anyone who might be reading this? oh, yeah, well I reserve the right to be inconsistent and hypocritical as well then…)

Yeah, ok, so maybe they aren’t the coolest band in the world, but having dragged Sally to enough gigs by bands I wanted to see, I think it’s only fair to go to one she wants to see (well two if you count Something For Kate. Oops. There’s that inconsistency again). To make up for it, I’m dragging her to see The Wannadies tomorrow night, and I have no qualms whatsoever about admitting to that (even if I’m the only person in the UK who still likes them). Their new-ish album, Before & After is excellent.