Those Annoying Post Brothers

I remember mentioning this to at least a couple of you, and telling you what little I know of it (which I learned from nik_strychnine). For what it's worth, there's a site concerning such things, and there's also a sample story available.

If that doesn't make it make sense, then I guess that it all just doesn't make sense.

Sorry.

Interesting news, and exasperating news

According to this article from space.com, there were three more solar flares yesterday morning. The activity level at the previously linked US government site is a very impressive 9, with recent estimates of the power input reaching a very healthy 270GW. I may pop outside to look upwards. I may, if I feel lucky, take some marshmallows and a long fork.

ALSO:

The Grauniad has been in court again over That Story concerning the royals that nobody can officially talk about. I was hoping that at least the furrin' press would have the lack of taste to go public, but searching Google news doesn't reveal very much. How disappointing. In the event that any of you fancy keeping an eye on things, the search terms "british royal family" (or even just "royal family") seem to be picking stuff up.

In a perfect world, either this would become public immediately so we can pretend to be shocked (or not, according to preference) before going back to our tea and scones, or somebody would shoot them against a cellar wall in Yekaterinburg and it would become a safe non-issue.

Personally, having people know that someone had been fisting the servants (or whatever it turns out to be) sounds infinitely preferable to all this pussyfooting about.

You know, I've never really considered the other possible meanings of the word "pussyfooting" before.

Hmm.