Let's Emigrate To ... Venezuela

Can you judge a country by the metaphors its government uses?

We are dancing the tango. When you are dancing the tango and your toe is stepped on, hurting your toe, you complain. If it is stepped on harder, you complain again. There's a whole game, but we are prepared to continue dancing the tango. (Jesus Perez, Venezuelan Foreign Minister, on Bush's re-election).

Requiem (for hope?)

Last night ladymoonray, her mum (WINOLJ) and I went to the Royal Albert Hall to hear ( Verdi's Requiem )

Coca-Cola Is It!

In news you may have missed yesterday, Indian farmers use Coke and Pepsi as pesticides.

[NaNoWriMo] Writing-Brain engaged

I remember what it was like to walk over Battersea Bridge, pause and watch a family of ducks swimming gamely against the tide, and not think, "Ooooh! Metaphor! Shiny!"

Random databases

OK ...
Trying to import a set of new queries to an Access 97 database
Got message about 'Cancelled, as this would create a duplicate key'. (not running the queries, simply trying to import them -- and they're only select queries anyway).
Compact and repair database.
Same thing happens.
Compact and repair database, and swear.
Same thing happens.
EDIT: Delete Sacrifice a random innocent, virginal, white-robed query.
Import now fine ...

My database is demonically possessed.

Any other explanations?