Then — an event — (I’m not saying what) triggered me to think that perhaps I was dreaming. I did a reality check by looking at my watch. It was beautiful, gold, and with no hands. “That’s a watch I couldn’t afford.”, I thought. Whereupon the watch started to age, it turned a tin-like colour and started to oxidise and crack. Then the wind picked up speed, and started blowing leaves across the market. “Ah, I’m losing the dream. I’m not lifting yet, so that’s cool. Now, what do I need to do to stabalise this world? Ah yes, I need to start running.”, I thought. I started to jog back down the front of the market place, to the stall where the previous event had occured, only to find that the stall had disappeared, upped and left. So I toyed around with some elements of the world, and then decided to wake up so I could record the details of my dream.

I lifted so gently out of the world, and so softly, as the layers of the dream were replaced with reality. I didn’t even need to rush to write the dream into my journal, I remember it as clearly now as if I was there… Reality check…  No, I’m definately here :)

I’ve already acted upon the event in the dream, seeing it as a nudge to get back in touch with a close friend. And, I feel very refreshed and renewed. 

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At the moment it’s free (as in, Beer) and in Beta. Extra functions include the ability to to notify various groups of contacts when I’m live, and also an online, on-demand archive of previous streams. At the moment, I’m sure it won’t take long for this excellent service to be picked up by mobbloggers everywhere. Why? Well, from what I can see in the GUI, it can automagically alert Typebad and Blogger blogs when the user is streaming. Roll on support for Wordpress.

Windows users can see the current stream, and view the on-demand archive hyar. Mobile users, you can point your browser hyar. I forgot to mention, there’s also an RSS feed to subscribe too. I think I’ll link on the sidebar, and maybe experiment with thunking e-mail notifications to blog posts :)

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And I upgraded for such a cheap amount, partly for trading in my old phone, mostly because O2’s Gateway system (In Store System) calculates cell phone usage for an upgrade based on all the phones in one parent account. So, my wife’s phone, and my phone are billed under one account, so both of our usage is shown as my usage, thus making me look like an uber-user. Is that fraud? Well, no. Because the O2 representative did double check with head-office, and they corrected her, but she chose not to listen to them.

Meanwhile, I’m enjoying being able to stay connected to the hive-mind with a lovely little device, which is also running Windows Mobile 5. No more restores after resets, for me. Not with persistent storage. Whilst persistent storage does make boot times a heck of a lot slower, it’s so much more piece of mind.

What’s next, well, I guess I’m going to need some WLAN stumbling/hacking tools, and some type of shell access. Which brings me along to my pet-peev of the Windows Mobile community. Because Microsoft are money-grabbing-bastards, they seemed to have spawned an entire community of wannabe-money-grabbing-bastards. There are very few open source projects for Windows Mobile, and anything semi-useful normally cost over $14. Heck! I’ve seen themes sell for near $5! What hope is there?

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I know, odd example, and worth keeping in mind that weregild is not always about repayment in blood, it wasn’t in the example, and it’s not in today’s legal system. Today, when the Criminal Court fails to appease the satisfaction of the aggreaved kin, weregild can be claimed via the Civil Courts, whilst repayment is not in blood, nor life, it is still a form of repayment. The Civil Courts can also rule differently to the Criminal Courts on the same matter.

I’m not sure where I’m going with this. I’m still gathering my own thoughts on the matter, and so would receive any recommendations on reading, whether old tales, or modern essays. I guess I’d like to be able to answer whether the modern dilution of weregild as a blood repayment is a GoodThing(tm), if this is progress, whether we can expect further dilution of the weregild right as western society becomes more state and ‘nanny’ oriented? Can the state trust families to use the Civil Courts in the manner they are intended? Or are they doomed to have rights eroded further… Discuss?

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