Nothing with kings.

• Only poor people put the toilet paper under, not over.

• And only a NAZI would set A=440Hz.

• RationalWiki: Ellagic acid.

• Rocknerd: Now this is just silly; Napster off, MAFIAAfire on, computers continue to subsume all comers; What on earth is up with rocknerd.org?

For Wednesday's school strike, arkady and the teen took Freda and two of her friends to the Natural History DINOSAUR museum. Both required strong drink after a day with three five-year-olds of profound pickliness.

Yesterday I went down the pub for the first time in months: the Red Lion in Leytonstone with merrythebard et al. The beer selection is superlative — I had to resort to the trick I use at the Pembury of buying two different half pints at a time. Also quite strong.

This week at work I have been tracing bugs in Mantis. A page calls a function which calls a function which calls a page which calls a function which looks up an enum. Exemplary PHP. Spaghetti would let out a low whistle of appreciation. If only any other bug tracker sucked any less. (I have had to install Bugzilla before. AAAAAAAA)

Associates Glamour Chase: not as awful as most "lost" albums. Eurodisco-wanna and extruded '80s UK dance pop product. No standouts. So, about the same as the released followup, Wild and Lonely.