I helped a friend move house recently – I just came along to lend a hand but ended up being fairly involved! 
I drove the truck down.
Assembled the bed.
Assembled the BBQ.
And drove the truck back – as well as helping with the lifting. I enjoy helping out and I hope Robert enjoys his new house!
I had fun on the recent MX5 track day at Lakeside. Unfortunately my car wasn’t running very well and didn’t make much power over 5000rpm but I was still very consistent with my times and placed well in the regularity! There was a silver Nissan S15 on the track and if you watch closely it was shooting flames out the exhaust!
Did a short 3.2km ride at Bunyaville, barely spun the legs but it was good to get out on the bike again.
My sister told me about the Maid Cafe she attended on her trip to Japan.
Maid cafés (メイドカフェ Meido kafe) are a subcategory of cosplay restaurants found predominantly in Japan. In these cafés, waitresses dressed in maid costumes act as servants, and treat customers as masters (and mistresses) in a private home, rather than as café patrons. The first permanent maid café, Cure Maid Café, was established in Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan in March 2001, but maid cafés are becoming increasingly popular. As they have done so, the increased competition has made them become crazier in order to attract customers. They have also expanded overseas to countries like China, South Korea, Taiwan, the Czech Republic, Mexico, Canada and the United States.
Source: Wikipedia
John Gruber on why Windows 8 is flawed as a response to the iPad
They can make buttons more “touch friendly” all they want, but they’ll never make Excel for Windows feel right on a touchscreen UI.
I’m not convinced by what I’ve seen of the Windows 8 interface demoed at the D9 Conference today. It’s the first real departure to the design that originated in Windows 95 and having been around for over 15 years quite a number of users the “START” menu is the only interface to computing that they have ever experienced.
Fast launching of apps from a tile-based Start screen, which replaces the Windows Start menu with a customizable, scalable full-screen view of apps.
Sounds awfully like Windows phone 7 and would suit a mobile device, but having never used it myself I’m uncertain to how I would find it on the desktop.
Could a change be as good as a holiday?
Supercharged pre-war MG sports car at the Mount Cotton Hillclimb. The driver seemed to have no issue doing powerslides on the circuit!
The guardian uk on the Dell XPS-15 (which looks remarkably like a Macbook Pro)
XPS-15 the world’s thinnest… apart from any thinner 15-inch laptops it wasn’t compared against.
Jean-Louis Gassée comments on the recent Microsoft acquisition of Skype and puts the case that they would have been better off buying Nokia.
Why did Microsoft pay $8.5B — 10 times the company’s revenue – for a business that has changed hands so many times, never made money, and comes with substantial debt?
