Lethal weapons.

• Trickle-Down Economics, illustrated.

• Peanuts by Charles Bukowski.

• Rocknerd: Take it to the bridge.

• NotN: Windows 7 parties; Tory candidate not working for PR company; Axle Greash Shit 2.0; Daily Mail; Gordon Brown on a unicorn.

Unemployed life continues. Much thanks to all those emailing me tipoffs on jobs, do please continue. Today I did an online test to bring a broken Tomcat installation up. Marvellous fun, with several clever red herrings along the way. (No doubt simulating abortive past attempts at moving stuff without bothering to clean up. Not that such things were a regular feature of my last job.) The bonus question led me to wonder (again) why no-one ever thought it a good idea to make bash able to just cope with lines ending ^M^J.

arkady has a cold. redcountess is off to Walhalla with the other crusty old goths. nyecamden and I have been going out for a year, which is both surprising and pleasing.