great job, Washington Post!

Top story on the front e-page, with art? A Barbie doll convention.

22 stories down the page, after important news like Canada's Wafergate scandal (also with photo), grad school tests, yet another investigation of Marion Barry, baseball scores, train service, and fashion clashes: a five-word, tiny-font headline for their coverage of yesterday's street protests in Iran.

Nothing like having your priorities straight!

had to fax some stuff

Sitting here doing settlement on my mum's house long distance with a PC and a scanner...

In the meantime I've been browsing (shallowly) the iTunes store for things to put on my iPod touch.

And found a *free* app that contains all the works of William Shakespeare. Plays. Poems. Sonnets. Everything. In a flash, sent over the tubes and condensers of Teh Intrawebz to this little thing that fits in my pocket.

Young people, please remember in your amusement at my astonishment that I had been out of college and in the job market for at least ten years before anyone (outside DARPA) had email or websites. I used to play Star Trek text-based games on the computer when I was a teenager, but only because my brother in law at the time had access to the Yale University mainframes.

I feel very, very old. And I'm only 45.

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OK, so the app that lets me know all the latest world football news and scores (and includes fixture lists and standings charts) is *almost* as cool as the collected works of Shakespeare.

:-)