On the left is my project guitar. I usually play bass but when I decided I wanted to put a guitar together from parts, it was a lot easier to find guitar parts. It's a replica of a Fender Telecaster, or it will be. It's going to be natural with all black hardware and hopefully it should look quite nice if I ever finish it. To be fair I've had the parts shown for over a year now, but I need a load more parts and also access to a drill press, and it'll need some sort of finish applied. Oh well, it'll be done when it's done.

The displays turned up for the machine today. It's so much better now, the only monitor I had before was a hideous 14" CRT so going to dual 17" TFTs was totally a insane difference. Having two monitors is a complete revelation. I did once have a Mac Quadra set up with two 640x480 screens, but this now has a desktop of 2650x1024, which is quite nice. It looks like my transition from using mainly laptops back to a single powerful desktop is complete (other than some pending upgrades). If anyone wants any laptops, I have a few sub-1ghz machines knocking about which I may be persuaded to part with...

If you're at all interested, the monitors I bought are HANNS.G JC171D 17" TFTs. Nope, I've never heard of them either but they were cheap and had many good reviews on Ebuyer. The picture quality is great and they have both DVI and VGA inputs. I recently found out an Xbox 360 could run on them at 1280x1024 - HD resolution. Admittedly they are much smaller than a real HDTV.

Played badminton tonight. Started out playing like utter shit, but picked up through the evening. I was pleased with the last game as the score was equal right up to the end.

I still have only watched 1 hour of Casino Royale. I'm finding it increasingly difficult to keep watching it for some reason.

Some examples of how utterly disgusting the human race can be:

Man beheads 17 year old girl's dog
Man rips wife's eyes out after she refuses him sex

Just insane. I mean, how? I wonder if the human race has a future, or even if it deserves one. However, here are some happier links:

Cute Polar Bear in Berlin Zoo
Drawing on dusty cars