So she didn’t bring along the Pet Shop Boys, Robbie or (thank God) Jason, but Kylie rocked on Sunday night. I’m still wearing the sweatband I bought on the night I’m still playing Kylie albums in the car whenever I go anywhere.

My love of Kylie has been hugely magnified.

Monday was spent wandering up the A312 on our riverside walk from Chelsea to Embankment, eating muffins and generally hanging around central London. The camera died halfway through the day, cutting my photographic activities short, but wandering around the city was fun and the company good.

As I can’t comment on her post (nudge nudge, Laurie) I’ll say welcome back to Carly via Planet Afterlife instead!

Now I’ve spent half an hour looking through your archives of old posts instead of going to bed like a good boy, I’m going to be that little bit more tired at work tomorrow. But as I had 15 hours’ sleep the night before, perhaps I won’t be after all.

Must remember to blog the pictures I’ve been taking on my phone over the last few days. Camera phone photos rock.

Who should I vote for?

Your expected outcome:

Labour

Your actual outcome:

Labour -16
Conservative -33
	Liberal Democrat 52
	UK Independence Party 2
	Green 35

You should vote: Liberal Democrat

The LibDems take a strong stand against tax cuts and a strong one in favour of public services: they would make long-term residential care for the elderly free across the UK, and scrap university tuition fees. They are in favour of a ban on smoking in public places, but would relax laws on cannabis. They propose to change vehicle taxation to be based on usage rather than ownership.

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I finally remembered to sponsor Clare and Ali for the Great Manchester Run next month.

Anyone reading this who hasn’t already sponsored them should feel thoroughly ashamed and should proceed directly to the web site without passing Go or collecting 200 pounds. Unless you’re going to give the 200 pounds to them, of course 🙂

I’ve just spent half an hour deleting around a thousand comments off the blogs hosted on wabson.org.

The buck stops here. When I get a chance I’ll be installing WordPress and looking into migrating over onto that for my blogging needs. WordPress 1.5 was released a couple of days ago and looks like it has some really innovative features for dealing with comments that I’m keen to try out.

Lets just hope I have more luck than Laurie has had so far in setting up MT 3 😉

(Yes, it’s a word!)

It seems the joys of Spring are not just confined to London. Today is a beautiful day on campus, with warm weather (sixteen degrees, apparently), blue skies and the smell of freshly cut grass drifting through the air.

Forty five minutes ago I was sitting on the piazza in the sun eating ice cream. Now I’m back in the office, where we have the windows open (albeit 20 feet above me) and a cool breeze is drifting across me as I type.

Today will be one of those days where I make sure I get out of the office early. Here’s hoping there’ll be lots more days like this between now and September.

So Apple are in the news again this week, this time for further crippling the Rendezvous technology built into iTunes that allows people to stream music each other across a local network. The Register have a big long rant about this and how moves such as this are reducing the freedoms we enjoy when listening to music. Go them!

So all in all, Apple are still evil. I guess much in the same way that Starbucks are evil, but we ignore it because they make nice things that we all like to consume. Where Starbucks exploit third world plantation workers, Apple use artificial technological barriers to restrict the civil liberties of rich Westerners like us. And a handful of fat-cat American executives get rich in both cases.

Another Welsh sunset.

There was much chanting at the Varsity match last night between the Warwick and Cov rubgy teams. And we won! The final score was 14-29, which apparently was to be expected given that Cov haven’t won the annual match for about 20 years now.

I got a couple of OK-ish photos inbetween the action, with the motion blur as the players ran up and down the pitch. The idea of capturing the passing of time in a photo is something that’s always seemed quite cool to me. It’s not something you get in photos very often.