The reviews by customers are not on the UK page for this item. But on amazon.com they are. The pictures uploaded by users are good. Have a look before it gets taken down...

The Times website is going to charge money if you want to read it. I read this for nothing, in the Guardian.

I have already pointed out that removal of Murdoch's biased reportage will improve the quality of Google News no end. Why? Let the Times tell you...

We keep investing in journalism, we believe that's what our readers want. We're not dumbing down, we're dumbing up.

Dumbing up? I rest my case.

I just found out that the notorious clone of Mrs Thatcher, the utterly revolting money-grubber Blair is no longer in contention for the post of European Council president. Perhaps now he will start work on peace in the Middle East, or at least stop taking the pay for it.

They have this fine picture of a lenticular cloud, here...

Underneath, the text says...

Sometimes likened to UFOs, lenticular clouds are usually created by gravity waves.

No, they are not. They are created by variations in the speed, density, temperature and humidity of the atmosphere, influenced by the shape of the surrounding landscape. What they are talking about are orographic clouds.

Gravity waves are a physical phenomenon that can be detected, and are nothing to do with clouds. I found a good explanation by Googling.

I feel better for getting that off my chest.

I find them really useful when I'm selling special Lego sets like Cybermaster.

So I was cross today when I had an email from them saying some nonsense about how they were having some sort of Christmas toy sale, and I didn't fit their criteria in some unspecified way. They just took the listing down, and I have no idea why.

Oh well, back to eBay with it...

I just can't seem to stop myself commenting on those idiotic, automatically posted Spam blogs.

Update: I had an example link here, but Rampage has heroically deleted the blog. Hurrah!

"Project Camelot" is probably the biggest load of silly nonsense I have read in absolutely ages. It's such nonsense I can't be bothered to cut and paste a link. If you have time to waste, find it for yourself, if you want to read tripe...

Rupert Murdoch is threatening to stop all his publications appearing in Google News. That will raise the quality of Google News. The bias in his rags does this Australian dinosaur no favours.

I was about to list some of my old computer science books on eBay, but they wanted me to list them with free postage. I have asked for that in the Post Office before now, but they just laughed.

Presumably the idea is that I will include the postage in my starting price, and then eBay can charge their percentage final value fee on the postage as well as the item. Greedy.

Anyway, I have listed the books on Amazon instead. Their charges are fair, and visible when you list the item.

I'm building up to an intellectually stimulating post, by playing a little Spore in between putting stuff on eBay. As you may be able to see, I just terraformed this place to T1 for its inhabitants, and plonked a monolith in their town. Then I gave them some crop circles to look at, and will now wait to see if they are nice guys when they evolve...