Anybody near Canary Wharf today please go and say Hi to Eddie Kidd who is still doing the London Marathon http://www.eddiekidd.com

Supporters of armed robber George Davis ruined what was supposed to be my first day at a Test Match in 1975.

Bitcoins back up over USD 7 - that can't be a fair value.

Having to use IRC for the first time this century. What do they know of Twitter who only Twitter know?

BitCoins are not very portable at the moment. No reason why there couldn't be an Android wallet (is there?)

The first person to run a BitCoin mining pool on port 80 will win the internet. Think of all those corporate GPUs sitting idle.

There may be a finite number of BitCoins, but there's an infinite number of digital currencies. Sell.

Just had my third erratum to the email RFCs verified http://j.mp/mTxjaP

Flight of the Conchords. Remember them?

OK, the BBC hasn't abandoned RSS altogether. They *have* abandoned full text RSS though. Boo.

The BBC seems to have abandoned RSS for its bloggers. Why?

The W3C have made invalid many hitherto valid email addresses. http://j.mp/leld3A omits some valid formats (@timbl)

Split-year Test Match grounds: MCG (22 times), Eden Gardens (11), Newlands (5), SCG (1), Multan [Ibn-e-Qasim] (1)

Forgot to post the answer to my trivia question about Test Matches spanning two calendar years. Here it comes...

Split-year Test Matches: Australia (23 times), India (11), South Africa (5), Pakistan (1). Most recently 1984-1985 Ind v Eng at Eden Gardens

Right, what's next?

Sad but important lesson for any small business that depends on someone else's plumbing http://j.mp/k04TbL

Just installed Ubuntu 11.04 for a thing. Nice. Only Microsoft Office stopping me switching to Ubuntu full time.

Astronomy fail at Boing Boing. Couldn't resist. Sorry. http://www.boingboing.net/2011/05/09/beautiful-360-views.html#comment-1105168

What are these people doing who spend hours fiddling with the cash machine?

Voted. Always feels good.