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Beirut photo doctored. From Yediot Aharonot.
Also, photographer fired by Reuters; all of his photos have been pulled.

(For those of you not familiar with Yediot, it's Israel's biggest daily paper; ynetnews is its English website. The title, in English, is the thrilling "Latest News".)

This is the same photographer who took the completely un-staged photos at Qana (which, I have to say, looked suspicious to me, and I'm no conspiracy theorist. The same guy was in all of them!). (I think yanata linked to the posts on http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/) Of course, the public will remember the insane headlines first trumpeted, not the actual death toll (26 at last count). Important lesson: always inflate your death tolls; it makes better PR!

(While we're on that, Lebanese PM Fouad Siniora has admitted the death toll at Houla was 1, not 40. See http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/. Ah, also on Ha'aretz, my preferred Israeli paper [elitist that I am]).

managed to forget my pills last night. Ugh is all I can say.

(oops, posted too quickly).

I've also not been eating properly. I suppose I should be glad I have plenty of fat stores; the baby won't be going hungry....

I WANT ONE OH I WANT ONE

(I can't afford one)

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wo/0.RSLID?mco=F7DDC500&nclm=MacPro

(And there was a sneak peek at Leopard!)

Should it be a Mac Pro or a MacBookPro for my 30th next year? ;)
(Sad woman. I could be a JAP and ask for something from Tiffany's instead ;) )

Just went to get the details of one of the flats we're looking at (to show my mother) and it's gone. Not a real problem as it's a giant new build development and 4 different agencies have flats to let there! It just would have been convenient as the same agency has another flat just round the corner we'd like to look at too. I tried to ring the agents today, but they didn't answer the damn phone!

New build is less optimal in location (0.75mi from Oakleigh Park mainline, 1mi from Totteridge and Whetstone--but there's buses to both the latter and to Arnos Grove, and they both have carparks) but looks promising. We just need to check out room sizes as new builds are notorious for being cramped and the floor plan doesn't have measurements on it! One round the corner looks slightly bigger, is closer to tube, but is painted a hideous shade of green (or maybe it's just really, really bad colour settings; the other room looks OK). And I can't paint whilst pregnant...if we take it, I'm going to try to bribe people ;-)

Both have DISHWASHERS! ;-)