Slightly obsessive compuslive, I realise, but I noticed some 'dust' under the keys and what I noticed was fairly significant. Once I had finished popping off the keys and chasing them across the floor, the piles of hair, dead skin cells, bits of food and unidentified objects was quite impressive, I really should have taken a picture of it.

The fun part is when I tell you that this is a second hand keyboard from the newspaper where I did work experience in Jan/Feb, where it spent an unknown number of years collecting lunch scraps, hairs and trace elements of all the nasty things people touch... and not just any nasty people, but journalists... I shudder at the thought. haha, no offence Charlesworth! :)

Today I went and sat in the courts to get my journalism story that I have to write by next Monday. Great action! Not really, but the drug-addled defendant had an amusing ramble about 'thanks for letting me off lightly' while the judge was trying to explain his probation and community service order to him.

Actually, I've noticed in my court visits the judges are quite sympathetic to offenders when sentencing them, commenting that the harshest sentence would likely do more harm than good... kudos to you Judges who are looking for the best in people.

I'm actually going to write something related to media as well!! go figure.

I love The Australian's 'Editor' section on the weekend, which covers editorial pieces from all over the globe and editorial cartoons (from Israel, Canada, Jordan and France last week). Although I don't think they put any of this stuff specifically up on their website, so no direct link for you.

Another good part of the site is a whole raft of links for those interested in international news. Some of the links don't work (like Kuwait Times) but it doesn't take too much to figure it out. My link there is the 'fixed' one.

Anyway, enough of that, there was actually some stuff written in last week's Editor that I was interested in talking about some-some. I'll put that in a new post.