Their news coverage is great - the BBC can still be trusted to provide top quality reporting by talented reporters. When compared to other networks, it’s pretty unbiased, too.

What the hell is it, though, with their studio production? Did some editor pipe up at a meeting and say “What we need here is Look East, only worse. Cheesy links, amateurish shuffling between stories and at least one sound, lighting or camera snafu every 15 minutes.”

Sadly, I am just about old enough to be Lewis Hamilton’s dad. The chatter has already started about whether he’s old enough to be in F1 next year. As the adage goes, “if you’re good enough, you’re old enough”. Talk about in at the deep end, though - straight into McLaren alongside the reigning world champion. I wonder if he will get to play with all the toys.

I must say it’s really convenient that the F1 season starts again just after the superbowl. Gotta have some sport to obsess over on a Sunday!

Well, last year I predicted that Lauren would meet Vicky Pollard, and she didn’t. Oh well. In fact, neither Catherine Tate nor Lucas and Walliams made an appearance on Children in Need, as far as I can tell. It’s a good job I don’t make predictions for a living. They got my tenner, and more, so who’s counting?

With champagne and fish and chips at work this lunchtime to celebrate us moving into our new office, I’m feeling somewhat discumbobulated this evening. Eleven hours of Thanksgiving NFL games should sort that out :->

If you’re in the U.S., enjoy your turkey!

I went to pick up E’s engagement ring from Powell & Bull in town. Got some champagne and roses, went home, put it on her finger, and saw on her face… there was something wrong.

Cobblers. It’s the wrong design. The one we saw was an emerald, with a lovely round, faceted stone. What E likes, though, is aquamarine. So we ordered it, the makers (in London, apparently) said it would be ready in 2 weeks. I got the call this morning to say it was available to pick up, and off I trotted with a spring in my step. What they got sent, though, was an emerald cut stone. It’s nice, I suppose, but it looks a little bit too showy - maybe a bit too much like dress jewelry. Oh well. E’s going into town tomorrow, so back it goes and I guess we’ll have to wait another two weeks or so.

Bum.

Well, finally the migration to WordPress is done. It’s been a long while between importing the posts from my own home-grown CMS and getting the rest of the work done to move things over. There’s still a few things on the WordPress version that aren’t as good in some ways, but the whole point about moving to something like WordPress is safety in numbers: somebody, somewhere has written a plugin or a howto page to address nearly every need.

The theme isn’t quite right yet, but it’s close enough for rock and roll.