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Well finally, it’s back to school tomorrow. Which is not quite such a bad a thing as it seems, it’ll be nice to see everybody again!

I visited WHSmith as well, just in time to bag new pens, rulers etc etc etc (the kind of stuff that you lend to someone and mysteriously ‘goes missing’.) I shouldn’t really have been surprised that is was as busy as Christmas Eve in there, leaving things to the last minute is great fun.

It’s also stupidly hot today. I mean, come on, summer is over already!

Just installed the final version of MP10 and nothing major to report really. The only noticeable difference from version 9 is the interface, which is nice, if a bit ‘mac-ish’

I did like what happened when I clicked on ‘Online Stores.’ NO AVAILABLE ONLINE STORE FOR YOUR LOCATION’ blasts an unfriendly message from a clearly US-centric program. Ah well, you can’t win em all on release day – can you?

Oh, and Microsoft released a brand new visualisation (they spell it with a z, I don’t) to celebrate this joyous day. And it features clouds. Funny, cause ‘Windows’ and ‘Clouds’ seem so familiar…

OK, so now I’m really back, and with a tiny improvement to this very blog (you can now email posts to a friend, would you believe?)

Between unpacking – and yeah, the holiday was greatly relaxing – I’ve been reading about Microsoft’s gut of Longhorn, watching ‘My Architect’ at the cinema which will reveal who was responsible for 60s concrete monstrosities among other things, and generally getting re-aquatinted with technology. And, of course, technology failing. The signal on our TV has gone down from over 70% to around 6. Grrrr…

Oh, and I read Bill Byson’s wonderful book – A Short History of Nearly Everything. Get a whirlwind tour through the gigantic universe of scientific breakthroughs throughout history up to the present day, and wonder at the huge amount we don’t know about our own planet even now. Served alongside the more personal, and often bizarre stories about the men and women who made the great discoveries, this book is never boring, always fascinating.

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You know the big feeling of satisfaction when you’ve filled 3 black bin bags, thrown out heaps of other junk, and made every single shelf in your room neat and tidy? Yes, that’s exactly how I’m feeling now. All I need is a re-decoration and I’ll feel complete

Saw the new Bourne Supremacy film as well. Great film, great direction. And only a few people will get what I mean by that. Everyone else can just assume I’m being enigmatic.