From the "Never too old to get over-excited about nebulous technology Press Releases Department".....:
GNER to spend £1m on Wi-Fi trains - Woohoo !
This is my regular ride to London, from oop-north... so this would be great if it happens.

Happy Birthday Flacky - you old git !

Signs you are a grown up (cont.)
We just swapped our Audi A3 (sporty hatchback) for a Ford Galaxy MPV, in silver.
These links seemed appropriate...:
Pass notes - Silver Van Woman
and here's [flash animation] an outlet for my liberal angst at owning a big car...

George W Bush Action Figures
These have been posted in a number of places, thought I'd collect this together as it's pretty funny...:
This Elite Force Aviator: George W. Bush - U.S. President and Naval Aviator - 12" Action Figure (it's real, honest) - celebrating Dubya's "historic Aircraft Carrier landing on May 1st 2003" has prompted this item on ebay Texas ANG George W Bush Action Figure, which appears to celebrate this.

BookCrossing
I heard a small feature on BookCrossing on Radio4 this morning (they disscussed Blogging a few weeks ago too !), something I'd discovered and forgotton a year or so ago.
The "3 Rs" of BookCrossing...

* Read a good book (you already know how to do that)
* Register it here (along with your journal comments), get a unique BCID (BookCrossing ID number), and label the book
* Release it for someone else to read (give it to a friend, leave it on a park bench, donate it to charity, "forget" it in a coffee shop, etc.), and get notified by email each time someone comes here and records journal entries for that book. And if you make Release Notes on the book, others can Go Hunting for it and try to find it!

See their website: BookCrossing.com

I liked this geek-humour cartoon regarding Mars' historic closest aproach to earth over at Userfriendly.

My friends Adam & Sam have got their CD available online at Tower Records.
Also, Tower's US site has some audio samples.