Yeah I bought her in a show, I dressed her up in a cheap red cotton dress.

On one UK poly mailing list, a Daily Mail journalist is so desperate to join this week's hot media buzz* that she is offering to pay people who will talk to her about polyamory. I must say the cash is profoundly tempting, if it weren't a sort of self-Godwination. Insert "house prices split between three" joke here.

Last night I visited arkady and worked on a shiny new business card for her while she sewed doll clothes. Everywhere she takes Ayame, people love her, so cards are needed in short order. VistaPrint will do two-sided full colour cards of anything you upload, total £64 including postage and VAT for 500 cards. Which is a great price. We'll see how the cards actually look, of course ... one error I've only just spotted is doing the back on an LCD and not checking on a CRT — looks a bit dull. But 500 cards should go in a couple of weeks.

( Card images, cut for those spooked by dolls. )

I haven't done DTP with serious intent to print production in about nine years, and even battling OpenOffice.org didn't spoil it. At least one doll should be up on eBay this week, unless Arkady can make a sale through the doll boards.

Geeks: when you install MediaWiki and can't get texvc to work, you may have to do for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do for j in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do rm $i$j*.tex;done;done before /tmp is very usable again. Work out why you can't just do rm *.tex.

* Metro, Daily Telegraph, Sun, Scotsman, Times, Guardian, Independent. You may want the vodka to hand.