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It seems there was an avalanche in Sölden yesterday. That's the town where I was skiing/getting horribly sunburned on Thursday:

An avalanche buried an Austrian ski resort’s street under more than 12 feet of snow today.

Police, caught by surprise, were searching to see if anyone was trapped in the 100-yard stretch just outside the town of Soelden in the western Alpine province of Tyrol.

Mayor Ernst Schoepf said up to 13 feet of snow covered parts of the Venterstrasse – a key local roadway leading in and out of the area.

Ok, not so much of a "lucky escape" given that I was only there for less than two days and the avalanche happened three days later, but it's notable at least.

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The phrase "web log" has been around for 10 years according to the BBC, who marked it's 10^th anniversary on December 17. I think it's about time we came up for new word for what we do here. "Clogging the tubes" has the right feel. So to speak.

Terrifyingly, Soylent Red is coming up on its 5^th birthday in less than a month. I've posted on average a little over once every three days throughout that time.

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I think it's quite kind of the Pope to raise his ugly head every now and again to remind us all how mindlessly perverse his ideas are. This time he "attacked" artificial insemination, of all things. Of course if God insists that someone shouldn't be allowed to reproduce then that's his prerogative as king of the faeries and who are we to argue? Oh yes, that's right. We're intelligent, reasonable, compassionate human beings, ethically compelled to assist those in need. At least some of us are.

His Popeness also reiterated his "gays are icky" stance, as I imagine he does at every available opportunity. Once again this failed to make a billion or so people ashamed to call themselves Catholics, for reasons best known to themselves, though possibly involving finger-in-ear-la-la-la syndrome.

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