On the 27th April 2004, I made my very first blog post on the hastily christianised ‘The Musings of a Red Dalek’. It was uninteresting, poorly written, published using Blogger using a hastily edited template and didn’t even have comments turned on. But it was a start. 
Early blog banners
Of course, some things never change. Back in 2004, I was slap bang in the middle of exams, Longhorn was the exciting new Windows OS that was ‘coming soon’, and we were at war with Iraq in a horribly dangerous situation. Fast forward two years later and… well… we’ve had an election or two? With the same people re-elected, of course…
So happy second birthday blog, and let me take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you who read, subscribe, comment or even just occasionally wander across this little journal of nonsense. Here’s to the future!
Thanks to various INSET \ Bank Holiday fun, there’s a four day weekend coming up. Hurrah! But woah, slow down there, because before that there’s loads of work to do. I’m developing rather elaborate coping strategies. Like ‘go to an A Level music performance’ to put off that English essay, or ‘for heaven’s sake don’t miss The Apprentice‘ to put off just about anything that might come up.
Incidentally, since I’m on a bit of a school rant, I had a slight little ‘uh-oh’ moment in Physics today. A bit like an oops, where are the prisoners? moment, but not quite as drastic. Basically – the concept was great. We’re practising for the practical and Hiten’s your partner! What can go wrong?
Well we still managed to screw up all three experiments. In fact, in one memorable incident, we discovered a new kind of ‘constant’ with the power to change from 1.17 to 1.60 at will and back again. It’s a magical constant I tell ye! Oh dear. Let’s hope work really hard so that things improve from the real thing on 16th May.
Enough negativity. Have I Got News For You recording on Thursday (still haven’t watched this week’s yet 
) and then on Friday I’m off to Birmingham\Rubery\Cofton\Marlbrook\’a big hill’ to nick Nic’s floor and stay the night. So if you’re in the area and you hear a strange accent in the air, come and say hi.
Night night children. xx Domdedomdom (as Josie’s sister Kathryn has taken to calling me).
P.S. Well I just came to boogie, I’m all about the boogie, tonight’s bout the boogie!
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Oh so I’m using incorrect movement and colour am I? Well maybe I don’t want to stimulate my viewers too much! 
Just watched Doctor Who – hurrah, werewolf! Oh, love it, love it. Especially the kung fu monks. 
This is something I feel strongly about. Medical research is at the cornerstone of our progress and development as a society. Throughout history many millions have died from diseases we can now cure thanks to medicine developed using animal research. However, some people are against the use of animals in laboratories and carry out sometimes violent, intimidating and illegal attacks to try and impose their will on others.
If you believe, like I do, that we should stand up to those who attempt to bully and coerce us into stopping this kind of research – then please sign this petition. If you’re undecided about the use of animals in medical research, consider:
- We are not talking about research into cosmetics or beauty products. Licences in this country are only granted to important medical and scientific research projects.
- Abuse can and will occur with animal testing, as with any other field. But this should not be a reason to discontinue it.
- If you eat meat, ask yourself why you don’t object to animals being killed (strictly unnecessarily) for food but not for life-saving medicines.
- If you are a vegetarian or vegan, consider if this is a personal choice or something you would impose on everyone if you had the chance. Would you ban the eating of meat? Should we therefore ban animal testing?
Think about it. If you agree, please sign up. At the time of writing, you will be joining about six and a half thousand others who agree with you.
News just in: they teach blogging in schools now! Wow 
Well apparently they do here, since my blog is being held up as some kind of template for the Year 8s to follow. Interesting.
I wonder if it’ll work. Can you ‘tell’ people to write a blog? Will that ruin the fun? Will you end up with a class of MySpace accounts? Apparently, the teacher who asked me about this (howdy to you Sir) believes that blogging is an ‘important literary movement’… is it, or is just a bunch of *shifty eyes* emotional outbursts about dead cats?
Oh who cares, anything promotional is fine by me!
This, incidentally, is a strange little semi-promotional video (edit – I say semi-promotional, but in their infinite wisdom, Google seem to have cut off the final caption. ‘Love it’ was the strap line, with dominicself.co.uk. Oh well.) I made at the beginning of the holidays. It doesn’t mean anything, the soundtrack is stolen from Sonic the Hedgehog and you’re only losing about ten seconds of your life by watching it. So go on, I dare you.
It was back to school and ‘real work’ today, and I can actually feel myself slipping back into work mode quite easily which is reassuring. Still have rather a lot of Maths work to do for Friday, but it’ll come, it’ll come…
Helen on It’s (waiting) time.: “Fabulous news, congratulations to you both! X” Jun 8, 21:51
