2012 — 14 February: Tuesday
Lurking in the morning midden1 was an overnight delivery from AbeBooks — a site I've so far used precisely once. It seems that Google Mail watches me read and discard their stuff and has now decided to discard it for me without bothering with the "read" phase. Yet another instance of programmers being clever but stupid, IMHO.
The worrying thing about this extract from their amusing feature on "weird" books is that I already own one of them. Aah, but which one?
Time to get up and atom, I guess. It is (as Andrew just pointed out to me in a phone call) several hours since he was dressed and breakfasted and I am currently neither. But then, it is only 10:01.
Behind...
... this spoof tag cloud lurks an infogasm...
Allegedly.
Later
Groceries gathered in? Check.
Lunch? Check.
Dear Mama visited? Uncheck.
Right. I'd better get my skates on, then.
[Pause]
She's fine. I now await my early evening visitor. And (given that he's just told me he has one last problem to solve before he's free to leave the Lab) I now have time to admit that I was mistaken. I don't actually have any of the ten weird books above; I do have this one, though:
Oops.
Right! Visitor safely despatched, I can turn my attention to an evening meal and the prospect of some entertainment. It's 18:45. I've also arranged a walk for tomorrow to clear the latest batch of cobwebs.
Silverlight's patching claims to have failed to install. Do I look worried? The Control Panel seems to think it's all present and correct. All 60MB of it.