Antics.

• Forget eggs, someone needs to do this to Nick Griffin. A large black one by preference.

• NotN: Cabinet reshuffle puts Lords up front; Kim Jong-nam happy to stay well out of North Korean succession.

Australians: what pay-as-you-go 3G dongles work with Linux as bought from the provider there? Specifically on Ubuntu Netbook 9.04, which is what redcountess has. I don't mean "try this, it might work" but ones you know do work. Pointers most welcomed.

Freda went for a hearing test today and is apparently fine. Just a slow talker like her dad. We've discovered the low-bandwidth way to entertain her: play music on Windows Media Player with visualisations. She watches it like it's telly and tries to dance along to it, waving her arms to imitate the visualisations! No doubt sending subtle indoctrination to her brain.

arkady has been making silver doll rings and sold the tanzanite straight off that post! More buyers most welcome ...