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As luck would have it, my parents have moved Christmas forward a week so we can get the whole family together. As Kate's parents are in Cambodia and her brothers and sisters going to the Chrimbo celebrations of their other halves, that leaves us with an empty house Christmas Day.

For a while there, I thought we might have to invade but it seems like you've managed to choose a good head of state. Obama now has an uphill struggle against the horrid mess that the poisoned chimp has left in his wake.

At least Obama is a good man with a forward thinking approach to politics and the world. Well done United States of America, you've not fucked it up this time!

Pete and I were having lunch. "Eclectic Games have a games night" says he. "I know!" says I. "Let's go" says he. "WooYay" says I. So thus we trundled off to Ecelectic Games in the middle of Reading for an evening of board games and shit.

Mum's 65th is over. My B Cat course is over. GenCon is over. Benanna's wedding is over. Outlaws will be back to Cambodia soon. All the big things this summer needed to yield have done so. It's time for a new plan and this is it.

It's been a long time coming but I've finally got my sticky fingers on the Icar Elements book. The quality of the print is very high indeed. I think I need to improve the DPI on the pictures but the book itself rocks! 88 pages for £10 and then £3 postage and packing. Hurrah!

You can see on this one that my name is a bit too close to the bottom. Easy to fix.

I've been thinking about where we might take the next version of Lack-Of. What you're using now is really a proof of concept, a hurriedly hammered together community design with mostly stock features. However, I do like to move things on and have been thinking about the next version and what it might be like.

A post about things I'm excited about at the moment. Includes jQuery, a fab javascript library for simplifying common techniques, dBug for visualising variables in PHP, an online HTML image map creator, a javascript timeline visualiser and someone's running Icar in play by post!

It's my pleasure to announce that I will be running two Icar games at GenCon UK 2008. Click to read more and see a nice pic I did.

£240 a year.

£240.

MobileMe is Apple's new service that provides a load of services for OSX and the iPhone for $99 per year. It looks like they've not only dropped the ball but sat down on it to ask where it's gone. You'd have to be a gullible twat to sign up to such a service. Let me explain why...