Don't forget kids, the South West's most dreadful rock covers band is coming your way on Saturday 13th September. Get to The Gander in Bournemouth and be prepared to hear all your favourite songs well and truly massacred by the Shirley Temple Pilots.

If Wily E. Coyote had enough money to buy all that crap from Acme, why didn't he just order a takeaway?

Standing in a church every Sunday makes you a Christian as much as standing in a garage makes you a car.

I lifted the following paragraph from the Apache site:

On September 1st the European Commission is going to vote a revised version of the European Patentability rules. The proposed revision contains a set of serious challenges to Open Source development since regulation regarding software patents will be broadly extended and might forbid independent development of innovative (Open Source and not) software-based solutions.

It's vital for all of us in the software industry to support these petitions, whether you're in the EU or not - this sort of lunacy cannot be allowed to continue unchecked.

Please register your support with http://swpat.ffii.org/ and http://petition.eurolinux.org/.