Maybe bong hits will fix my build.xml.

• The Privatise Thatcher's funeral petition is at 26,000. A hundred thousand and it gets discussed in Parliament. FORWARD IT AROUND.

• The British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies on treating the trauma from leaving religion.

• Freda should be at this stage in about a year or two.

No shaving cream at all actually gives a smoother shave than Lush Ambrosia, surprisingly.

We have a new old dishwasher! After seven years' having the crap beaten out of it, the tabletop from megabitch finally died. Being a cheaparse, I bought a Hotpoint FDF780 second hand for sixty quid with six months' warranty from the British Heart Foundation furniture shop. And it works and stuff. The older teen is most pleased.

I should note that just before Christmas, Freda got her first-ever phone call from a friend, so they could talk about their Christmas trees. None since, but I shall mark the moment as the beginning of the end.

Freda has taken to turning juice containers and Pringles cans into junk sculptures, working for days to stick stuff to them just so. Then she presents them to people as presents. I can just see her making big eyes at someone, saying "But I made it for youuu!" then they give her a large cheque. Here's hoping, anyway.

At work I have been working on automating everything possible with Ant. After using ant for a while, you do think "perhaps mod_brainfuck would be more flexible."

I have just discovered how to do a loudness wars mix. (Soft limiting.) Fuck it's horrible.