Zorac's LiveJournal

See my new icon? That's today’s Dilbert strip - whatever day you're reading this (except Sundays at the moment). Nifty, huh? I have a bunch of perl which grabs the latest strip from the Dilbert website, cuts it up, resizes the parts to make an animated GIF then uploads it to LJ in place of the existing one.
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Update: W00t! It works! Todays strip is there completely sans human intervention.

I was going to post this yesterday, when the timing would have been a little more auspicious, but hey ho. The target of today's rant is the earliness of Christmas - yes, christmas stuff has already started appearing in the shops - three months ahead of time. Doubtless, in another month or so the decorations will be going up, the holiday music will be playing and the shelves will be packed with naff gifts. Oh, joy.

It's just wrong

I may be a confirmed atheist, but that doesn't stop me from finding the over-commercialisation of Christmas tacky in the extreme. The fact that we're bombarded with it for around a quarter of the year robs the day itself of being anything much special. If I had my may, they wouldn't be allowed to go all Christmas until December - and having the decorations up beyond twelfth night would be not only unlucky, but downright illegal.