Misc

BBC Parliament is covering the Falkland Islands crisis by replaying the BBC News coverage of the time, linked by Brian “I counted them all out, and I counted them all back” Hanrahan.
I’m flicking between a Sky+ recording of this and Lewis Hamilton winning the US Grand Prix at Indianapolis.
Incidentally, isn’t it ridiculous that the drivers put on their sponsors’ wristwatches before the presentation ceremonies? With that, and the caps that have to have the tyre manufacturers on. And why do they even bother with national anthems any longer? They get the British anthem down to about ten seconds and even then, it sounds like it’s coming out of a Binatone cassette player from circa 1983.
Mortified to discover that I managed to chose precisely the same father’s day card this year as I did last year! That’s what happens when you choose your card from the wide wide selection at your local newsagent. And it wasn’t even a “Father’s Day” card – just a plain one (Why do so many greetings card feel the need to pre-print some fatuous message? I can write a message with somewhat more meaning myself).
Not sure what’s happening to all the Amazon links to books on this website. If it’s not righted quickly, then some remedial action’s going to be needed by me.
[LATER] It seems that I’m not the only person suffering, and that it’s likely to be some kind of weekend Amazon problem. I’ll wait until tomorrow to see if it’s fixed.
[LATER STILL] And Amazon seem to have fixed it now. But those temporary orange flash things are horrible.