Nothing can stop us.

• Moving to London. I am the cat in #8.

• Tony Abbott Looking At Things.

Still got those monitors here. Also an Ikea folding camp bed. All luggable via public transport from E17 (though probably not all three at once). Free to first collector.

Freda is on holiday! So arkady has taken this fortnight off to play with her and I'll be taking next fortnight.

Yesterday we started six gallons of Christmas pudding mead, to be ready in time. Recipe up on Arkady's mead blog shortly. Update: And here it is. Start this ASAP if you want it ready in time.

How to get a magical flying unicorn pony: 1. Write "MAGICAL FLYING UNICORN PONY" in the spec. 2. Say you'll be using Agile. Work has gone "agile" with "scrum". Ops hasn't gone "scrum", though marking user stories for literary value and returning them covered in red annotations and a circled "F" at the bottom would enhance my day; we just have to write all requests to anyone else as user stories. "User Josef K. wants to achieve anything at all today so that life is not so amusingly futile." "User Simon wants you to do your fucking job so he doesn't have to apply the Etherkiller to your rectum." The Agile that works is Agile; the Agile that does not work is you getting Agile wrong. I wonder what next decade's silver bullet will look like.

Creationism is true! Dinosaurs are "easter eggs" left for us to find and be amused by.

Geeks who insist on the value of "unvarnished communication" mean they want to send it; they reliably hit the roof when they receive it.