… as I had to attend an English lecture on Othello instead, and while kayaking\canoeing is great fun this was really interesting too. Especially considering I haven’t read Othello and only got a brief summary of the plot beforehand (we don’t start doing it till next term). The lecture (from Prof Robin Headlam-Wells) concentrated on Othello’s ‘clash’ between a heroic culture based on honour, and a civil one dedicated to justice, law, soceity etc. The bit about ‘honour killings’ today got me thinking – how many teenage boys have a set of criteria from which it’s OK to beat your wife? (That’s a rhetorical question, I read the statistics in the Guardian.)
I personally gave up on the whole ‘honour’ thing when I decided survival was a better policy 
Edit – Oh, and tomorrow is ‘Progress Review Day’ = A Day Off. Nice.
Double Edit – Today’s fun fact question: What is Tory leadership challenger Liam Fox’s flagship policy on education?
Answer: put a Union Jack outside each school. Good to see he’s got his priorities sorted then!
Hi Dominic, can you please put some information about Windows Vista and Office 12 on your website please.
Simon
And ever try and duplicate the incredible Paul Thurrot (http://www.winsupersite.com/vista/), Jensen Harris (http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/), Scoble (http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/) the other Microsoft blogs (http://blogs.msdn.com/) or Channel 9 (http://channel9.msdn.com/)? Never!