Stereo worxxx.

• How The Secret™ actually works (courtesy lproven).

• According to the Taxdodgerpayer's Alliance, its critics are just jealous of their superior sexual prowess. Really.

• My Wikimedia blog: You need to read Nonprofit Kit for Dummies.

Coupla weeks ago I met up at last with Sandra Ordonez, who had the joy of being the Wikimedia PR person in the last period before it finally got its shit together as a professional and functional organisation. I told her the stuff in the Nonprofit Kit for Dummies post above and she got that post-charity stress disorder look in her eyes. I also met the Bacon Queen.

We are off on holiday tomorrow! To deepest darkest Wiltshire for Freda to see her grandparents, who are over from Australia. Don't expect me around till next Monday (unless the Internet works there). Older teen left her Nintendo DS behind, so it's Freda's now — arkady just got a pile of games for it suitable to occupy a five-year-old on holiday. She's playing the cat one now.

Java 6 EOL December 2012. There's no OpenJDK 7 for 10.04 and no good PPA ... so it's either make our own deb of proprietary JDK 7 the way we do proprietary JDK 6, drop in debs from Debian or a later Ubuntu, or compile from source (hah!). So, what are you doing for Java 7 on Ubuntu 10.04? (Useful discussion on my G+.)

(The small joys of fish as a server name theme: getting to call the new webdev box "mudkip".)

Dear Google+: if I'm one of the few people who actually bothers going to plus.google.com to look at you, please stop with most of the frickin' time putting me into a screen to please please please spam everyone I know, most of whom just created an account for the sake of YouTube. It's annoying and just looks desperate.