Pride's paranoia.

• Mijn Schatje is a plagiarist.

• NotN: Our boy Murray shows Johnny Foreigner "what-for" at French Open; Green landslide in Euro elections.

redcountess was successfully packed onto a plane last night. Freda ran into her room this morning, puzzled that she wasn't there. Aww!

Today arkady and I committed democracy. Choices: proven thieves and liars, neo-Nazis, palaeo-Nazis and gibbering nutters. So. Which nutters did you pick? I ended up picking the Greens, because their digital rights position is superlative ... even though they seem deeply suspicious of any technology or medicine more complicated or considered than banging rocks together.

(If running a political party, make sure you appeal to voters smart enough to unfold paper.)

nyecamden came over this afternoon and we went for a walk in Epping Forest. I've lived in Walthamstow for six years and never been in Epping Forest. It was lovely. I actually enjoyed the journey itself. From Wood Street station to Higham Park. Tomorrow we might hit Hampstead Heath.

I am writing this in Google Chrome on Windows XP on a Pentium III 1.2 GHz with 768MB memory. When I have lots of tabs open and switch tabs, it takes several seconds for the page content to be displayed. Is this normal? Do other Chrome users see this? (I can't put a proper operating system on this machine — Liz uses it for IE for her surveys — but this is getting very annoying.)