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I just dropped the glass plate from inside my microwave. It broke. I spent a good 15 minutes swearing and complaining that now I was going to have to buy a new microwave until I found Signals UK - purveyor of spare parts for domestic appliances. Which is marvellous. In an age of immediate disposal it’s nice to think that a perfectly operational microwave doesn’t have to be chucked for the want of a plate.

Micro publishing has been floating around for a while now as a concept. The idea that publishers are nearly able to print single copies of out of print books seems to me to be marvellous (see this article from the Economist for a brief discussion). All we needed was a way to do it ourselves as well. First we had the iPhoto books and now we have Blurb. Vanity publishing in the extreme, possibly, but a fantastic idea.

We learn what Freddie said to Brett Lee at the end of the Edgbaston test… From an Aussie blog:

Andrew Flintoff finally revealed this week what he said to Brett Lee when he famously went over to the despondent tailender after England narrowly won the second Test at Edgbaston last year: “I must admit that when I put my arm around him the exact words I used were, ‘It’s 1-1 you Aussie bastard’.” Yeah, right. A fine bowler, a fine batsman, and a sense of humour. Flintoff surely is the complete package.

Royal Bank of Scotland are deploying an Intranet using Zope. As the article says, a bank adopting an Open Source technology is going to do no harm at all…

I’ve posted a fair amount about the tube map before - it seems to be a British (and even more so a London) obsession to subvert it as often and as interestingly as possible… This one I particularly like - pop music as the tube (full version can be found here). Think of a mixture of The Great Bear and Rock Family Trees. The comments are an absolute joy to read as well. Want a bunch of het up humourless bastards.