I'm an uncle! Congratulations to Zoe and Brian on the birth of Tate Hepworth Evans, born on Monday at 1.03pm and weighing 8lb 13.5oz. Hurrah! Mmm... what else. I've been doing a lot of reading lately: in the last few weeks there's been the Armchair Economist (interesting but conceited), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (very good; touching), Peace Kills (terrible; facile), The Secret Life of Bees (a good read), 9-11 (erudite; pleasing), and currently A Certain Chemistry (less funny than the author thinks it is). I also accepted a job with Ubiquity, which I'll start before very long. Californ-eye-eigh here I come...