69 love songs.

• Serious archival DVDs. I must write a Wikipedia article on ECMA-379.

• NotN: Chocolate reduces chocolate manufacturers' stress.

Drinks and dinner with Kul Wadwha from Wikimedia and Mark, a doctor who knows everyone. We spent the evening drinking and eating and talking erudite rubbish. We feel we can take over the world. The basic procedure being to put up curated content on a controlled site and release it as CC by-sa. Or CC by. Or public domain. Give away everything, just control your copy. And credit — credit is everything. That took up about half an hour, the rest was us talking rubbish. Oh, the NPG thing is apparently working out okay. Lots of work to do, but the meeting was very positive for all parties. I'm sure more detail will be released as appropriate.

I got paid today. I can't tell you how unstressed I am all of a sudden. Tomorrow (today) is shopping day. I get non-dead shoes.

Ricochet days.

• Time to give up on civilisation. (courtesy ditzy_pole)

• Architects plan giant cock in Hoxton. AUGH MY EYES.

• Don't try to parse HTML with regular expressions.

• NotN: School head: Boys should be "realistic" about careers and fatherhood (cheers to khalinche).

People are apparently out tonight painting the town red with wild abandon. arkady and Freda and I are in painting the house tired. We have done not a whole lot today except a huge food delivery and herding the toddler, who has been a major trouble source. Said toddler has collapsed asleep on mum and so we're sitting around basking in doing bugger-all and running out of Internet.

I got paid yesterday and have spent yesterday and today and will be spending tomorrow buying and paying off things. When we're out of money, I get to wait another month. Yay!

The job continues to be interesting. My boss was off stripping wallpaper the last two days, so I got a gentle introduction to the deep end. The office tech wiki contains just a bit more important information now.