Everyone is entitled to my opinion...

...but not everyone wants to take advantage of that.

I signed up via the feedback community for an online survey; I get a lot of pleasure from my free LJ account, it seemed like the least I could do.

Failed at the first question ("How old are you?"): seems they already have enough respondents of my "background", thank you very much, have a nice day.

Have the Silver Surfers really taken over LJ, or am I just too old?

The school song

The Guardian, in its quest to lure its readers into writing ever more of the paper, invites us to recommend songs on nominated topics: this week, "School". Given the season, that's "back to school" rather than "school's out", but there's still plenty to choose from. Leaving aside the blandly pop (Wonderful World: "Don't know much about history...") and the purely incidental references ("In Kindergarten arithmetic classes/ She used to sit next to me..." is not actually about school: it's from Al Stewart's Love Chronicles) - in fact, as far as I'm concerned we can leave aside all the faintly predatory Good Morning Little Schoolgirl songs, even Sting's Don't Stand So Close To Me, despite the heroic rhyme of:

He starts to shake and cough
Just like the old man in
That book by Nabokov

( OK, what does that leave? )