Re the earlier google talk - this is quite an interesting article about the way google run their datacenters. 100,000 is a lot of servers...

Hello chaps,

Claire, Jenny-pops and I are heading north for a week in Scotland. Will attempt to do some photoblogging of our North British sojourn.

toodle pip

US secret agents quiz boy over art. Things still completely FUBAR on the other side of the pond then...

Let's get a rapping Welsh policeman along to our next pub night. His world view would be sure to inspire some heated debate...

As penance for the recent frivolity of my posts, here's an interesting piece by Dick Morris in today's Times about the Bush/Kerry election prospects. More equivocal than his article in the NY Post that I posted the other week, and thus slightly more hopeful for liberals.


Essentially, he says that if terrorism is the main election issue Bush will scrape it, but if the economy or anything else is Kerry should sneak in. The problem is that when something like Faluja is going on, the US electorate get more gung-ho about terrorism, even though Bush actually created the situation in the first place. Thus you get republicans denigrating Kerry because he voted against purchasing the arms which US marines are now using in Iraq -- yet if Bush had never started the bloody war in the first place, they wouldn't need the arms. It's so frustrating how war and jingoism seem to short-circuit people's sense of reason.

Seumas (and Tom and Colin if you're interested) - you up for a Green Lanes pint 4pm tomorrow? Can you mail me at my yahoo address (I've broken my work email).

Ta

As well as the exploits of Dirty Desmond, did you quys catch this in yesterday's Grauniad?

One of the greatest living Englishmen is no longer living..

So gutted that Richard Desmond has elected to support the tories...

You may have seen this before, but if not, Andy Serkis at MTV awards gives the Best. Acceptance speech. Ever. (warning: some swearing).

BTW, when I signed into blogger.com today, I got offered a Gmail account (which I took, out of curiosity). Anyone else get this?

Derelict London.com

Poets 'die younger' than authors

Aaaaaaaaaargh. Britain's brickies build a fortune

Bloody excellent - jet packs reach Stoke Newington

Haven't been any pictures for a while, so thought I'd subject you all to these photos of Maradonna:

    

(Aged 43, 39 and 25.)

Nice one - the dullest blog in the world!

Not like this one, oh no.

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