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The weekend was stellar. I´ll probably drone on about it later. First, though, a couple of interesting news items - at the end of this year Britain will finally finish paying off our war loans from the US, and the High Court has said that the Chagos islanders can go home. Result! (Or, at least, Result! pending the inevitable appeal). Oh, and HMG´s finally calling for the Guantanamo camp to be closed. Not going to happen, but nice to hear it said.

While I´m here, does anyone know how to turn off dead keys (the method of mapping extra characters to a standard keyboard rather than any other use of the phrase) under debian (etch, gnome)? I be grateful. It´s annoying me.

Sorry Hoogs, you're liable.

It seems that Nicky H can't argue that the civil trial over his liability for the death of a business associate was flawed simply because he decided against defending himself. Seems fair.

[FX: clippity-cloppity sound of Graham on a hobby-horse]

In other news, it's been very sunny and the Meadows and links have been lousy with students and other layabouts, laying about in their summer gear. All a bit depressing,really.