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If any of you played the Resident Evil games in your earlier years, you may find the video amusing. It's got Japanese school kids reenacting Resident evil. The acting is great. The guy event moves in a rediculously rigorous way. Changing from walking to running, stopping and standing rigid to turn etc... Pure magic.

This blog has just moved to the new blogger. Well, the updated version atleast. I hope it works out. My Edge Trading diary is under a different account but I can't remember the user name, though it's linked to this one. Oh well, it wasn't really pulling in the bucks anyway.

On Monday, my cheapskate mate sent me an email informing me that Landlords prefer to let to Muslims first, and Chinese 2nd. At the bottom of the league were Australians, locals and South Africans. I have no idea what the reasons are for the first two listings. I guess landlords might not like Aussies and South Africans, as most are young travellers throwing constant house wrecking parties. They also have less formal living arrangements, with people constantly moving in and out, and could thus be harder to collect rent from. Why landlords would dislike locals is a bit of a confusion. When I was renting, most of them seemed to want "young professionals", the majority of whom would have steady jobs and thus be able to pay rent. Many young professionals could be locals, though I suppose they could easily be from other parts of the country, and thus not be locals. Locals could more literally mean local people, who haven't been lucky enough to move out of their little hamlets or Staines clones. I remember a family friend telling me not to let property out to families. Not sure if families are more likely to be locals or not, though I don't think many will be Australians or South African. Basically, the friend had been screwed over time and time again by families who claimed they couldn't pay the rent. Seeing as the families had children, and that he was a nice guy, he couldn't turf them out. But he was nonetheless unhappy about having to foot the bill for the parents' failures. Anyway, I can't dig the story out to provide a link to it.

Guys at work this week were discussing the Civitas report. I'm still working out how to try and get my cut, and am looking forward to my state funded pension in 3 years.