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Here are a few things I’ve been thinking about recently.

Geek stuff
I have passed my final exams I am now a qualified ACA: this is a good thing.

This is me
I posted about XKCD once before. Like the comic strip I pulled out then, I feel I can relate to the one from Monday this week: Tones.

Geek stuff again
Over the past couple of weeks I have been playing Super Mario Galaxy again. Having completed it several months ago playing as Mario, I repeated what was basically the exact same (and still damn fine) game, but this time controlling his slightly taller, thinner brother, as is the option available to those who have obtained all 120 stars. Let me just say this: Luigi is a git. He may run slightly faster, jump slightly higher and have a more awesome vacuum cleaner than his more famous elder brother, but he ain’t half got a traction problem: I lost count of the number of times I fell from a platform having slipped around backwards and forwards and teetered on the edge, failing to stop in time. You don’t get that with Mario. It was a joy to control the Red One again, albeit briefly, right at the end of the game.

And another thing
When will people learn to use their headlights properly? I’m talking about those driving conditions when it’s wet, or just on the turning point between light and dark. Particularly during rain, the number of drivers without any lights on at all astonishes me: some, I would be prepared to concede have simply not realised their omission, having let the rain slip in unnoticed; but there are too many no-lights drivers for that. A fair number must believe they don’t need to switch their lights on, the fools. Worse still are the sidelight drivers, those who seem to think that sidelights are appropriate for driving with. I say: either use headlights or no lights at all. So there.