Charlie's prison audit.

• Being a pack of twunts, SixApart think this is a fabulous idea. To opt the hell out, log in to all of your accounts in turn, go to the admin console, enter the text set opt_exclude_stats 1 and press "execute." And spread the word.

• I mean, they could just have used this.

• How to make £5 steak taste like £50 steak.

bmovie was the night out I needed. I LOVE YOU ALL. Lotsa pics to go up when I get 'em done. I'm sorta busy.

Work is GODDAMN INSANE. One guy's last day was on Friday (and I'm sure HR will approve the job description, which hasn't changed in the year since I was hired, before the end of time) and one is on holiday, so there's three and a bit of us in the office dealing with mountains of crap. Today's special joy: installing a new version of something from a source RPM on a dev playpen box with three previous versions in various states of repair installed from source. Break out the big spanner and the dodgy library symlinks! And $PATH had /usr/local/bin before /usr/bin, and the same for libs. (You are not expected to understand this. The tone should be clear.)

Freda is fractious, with teething and growing pains, so the girls are exhausted dealing with her all day and I get home and exercise my l33t Daddy p0w3rz of cooking and dandling. Yeah, I'm loving it.

I have failed to beg off Saturday's on-call. BOTHER. So I will be at home, arkady and Freda will be at a one-year-old's birthday party and redcountess and mirrorshard aim to rep-ra-zent tha cru at Polyday. I welcome visitors next week, day or evening.