Despite just having had a week's holiday, I still haven't been keeping this site updated. I have, in fact, hardly touched my computer recently, except to play Black and White (which I am now starting again from scratch, due to a rather unfortunate incident with a save game).

I've discovered that being the father of an adorable girl is quite addictive and time consuming. Planned activities often get pushed aside when a little voice starts “da-da-da-da-da-deeeee-da-da-da”. Of course, they also get pushed aside when she vomits on the floor, but that's not quite as cute.

Life certainly is different these days.

A number of articles have recently reminded me that we know so very little about this tiny planet we live on. Some of our basic assumptions about insects are being challenged (also here). We're also finally discovering evidence of colossal, glow in the dark predators with huge beaks (and claws).

It really makes you wonder other secrets Planet Earth has hidden away from us, let alone what wonders there must be in that seemingly infinite universe out there.

At first, I couldn't believe that someone would be silly enough to invent an internet enabled fridge-microwave-thingy that can also receive commands from a mobile phone. Then I was amazed that people would actually want to buy it. I mean, how can you be sure that something like that won't steal all of the bandwidth from your internet enabled weather-toaster and your internet enabled fridge?

Today was April Fools, and it was filled with the usual collection of fake news stories, but not all the wacky news stories are fakes. It seems that Morocco has offered the US monkeys trained to detonate land mines and Sadam Hussein was once given the key to the City of Detroit.

I was going to make up some fake news for April Fools, but how can you compete with things like that? How can I possibly compete with a world of exploding monkeys and dictators that can let themselves into any home in Detroit?