Eighties Matchbox

Thanks to you all for the comments on the last one. Much appreciated.

Well, in an attempt (broadly successful) to cheer me up a bit, gingiber and anonymous_seth dragged me through to Glasgow last night to see Eighties Matchbox B-line Disaster. Executive summary : just as good as last time.( Read more... )

Today I am mostly feeling crestfallen. This may last a while, but isn't expected to be permanent. My boss seems to have an unexpectedly abrupt recovery from pneumonia and is actually in evidence. I don't know whether this is wise. The engineer we're due a visit from not only isn't here but couldn't give me a date when i called him, and hasn't called back as he said he would. My next question is about what sort of response time we've been guaranteed in our support contract. So far it's been about two weeks, which is Not Bloody Good Enough under almost any customer service model.

www.electoral-vote.com

It's Andrew Tanenbaum. This is probably obvious from the DNS registration details, but I hadn't bothered to wonder who was behind the site. It seems a bit loaded at the moment, unsurprisingly, but the estimate based on most recent polls is 298:231 in Kerry's favour . . . but so many of the states are on the edge that it could easily still go either way. The prediction with the usual split of the (now quite rare) undecided voters is 306:218, obviously with the same caveat attached. It's all still to play for.