Hello dolly.

• A fate worse than death.

• New not news: Drug firms deny pricing for profit, Labour selects sock with eyes as new leader. I think I've got the queueing system working, so they should pop out at 9am UTC (10am BST) like clockwork. Wednesday's should be fun. Update: No, they don't. Today's has been pushed.

Pub on Sunday was most excellent. I believe the geek concentration did in fact reach critical mass. clanwilliam, oi luvsh ya mate!

Freda is all set to talk. She said "my daddy!" the other day when her mum brought her in to me, she says "hello," she said "cat" with the "t" clearly audible this evening ... soon we'll never shut her up.

arkady has finally finished the doll dress she's been working on in stray moments when Freda let her and got it up on eBay.

redcountess didn't get her DLA. Meh. Guess I'll just have to get rich on teh intarweb.

damned_colonial visited today and we geeked appallingly antisocially about Freebase ("your second hit is also free"). There's a Freebase meetup at the Yorkshire Grey pub in Holborn from 6:30pm on Wednesday 20th.