Looked at Henry’s blog, which was just plain scary. Used his Neil Gaiman link though and can only recommend his (Neils) entry for the 28th Jan: http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/journal.asp. As a result of lost wager, Simon is forcing me to read The Black Alchemist by Andrew Collins which I duly began last night. So far it’s like trading life force for twinkies. Noting a good conspiracy, I see Henry’s sister Maria is excercised by the fact that the UK government currently taps (per annum) twice the number of phones that it tapped (per annum) in WWII. Is it mean to point out that (and frankly I’m guessing here) the total population of phones now must be far greater than twice that of WWII?