At the swings with my nephews, there's this skate-swing thing.

Ages ago, Andy made a cocktail, with me choosing the ingredients, this was the result. Fantabulous!

I've been doing some work on Polifesto, both the functionality of the site, and the content. Polifesto is a wiki of political manifestos. You can rate the manifestos and write your own. You can include policies from other manifestos. I've fleshed out a manifesto call La Licorne Manifesto.

The technical …

Yes, a real fairy-tale!

What a lovely chateaux :)

After reading Jill I looked it up on Wikipedia, and finding the article a bit sparse, I added the following synopsis:

The eponymous Jill is Kemp's imaginary sister, whom he invents to confound Warner. Kemp then discovers a real-life Jill called Gillian, the 15 year old cousin of Warner's friend …

Here's the electricity substation near Amboise that powered the train I arrived on. I took it because I know someone who works for EDF (that's you Sarah).

And to continue the theme of photos that are of interest to people I know who work for utility companies, here's a picture …

This film sets a new standard for CGI, it was impossible to tell where real footage ended and CGI began. The story was great too. For me the only problem was that there was a bit too much shooting, in the Starship Troopers mold.

I complained to Janos that all sci-fi is based on feudal societies, dictatorships, monarchies, everything but liberal democracies. So Janos recommended The Prefect, by Alastair Reynolds.

At times in the book I thought, 'Inspector Morse in space'.

Well written, would work as a detective novel without the sci-fi bit. But …

I had a passable haddock risotto at the Watershed restaurant yesterday. We proceeded thence to Screen 2 at the Watershed to see Afterschool.

Some films convey their truth by smoothly omitting the everyday details of life, and some by showing 'warts and all'. Afterschool takes the latter approach. Soon into …