Sweeney and the Scientologists

Managed to work on a poem on the way to work, and at my desk during lunch. A quiet day, where the most exciting thing was working with the Gnome on mailing to encourage people who are already in debt to "top up" their loan, i.e. borrow a bit more. You feel like you need a shower afterwards.

Watched an interesting and scary BBC Panorama documentary about Scientology. The Gnome showed me the "video ambush" on You Tube posted by the Scientologists showing their own film of reporter John Sweeney completely losing his rag. The Scientologists appeared completely barking and paranoid, but we learned very little about Scientology. The Scientologists also completely undermined the documentary, and knocked the BBC's credibility. Having a forum of millions instantly on You Tube has really turned the tables.

Later, spoke to Sprinkles via IM, and fiddled on my computer which had freaked out in the morning, and sensibly backed things up.