And why did they demolish the building so soon after the, erm, explosion(s)? And what happened to all that seismic data? I remember before he was executed, Timothy McVeigh said, "You will remember my name," and everyone kind of went, "Yeah, whatever. NEXT!" but here we are (well, here I am) going, "A bomb in a van did THAT?" And now we hear that those two planes in Russia . . . erm . . . I was listening to the BBC news and I heard that the black boxes in both planes stopped recording moments before radar contact was lost. Odd. I sometimes wonder if Russia, Japan and the USA are testing strange scalar electromagnetic weapons on each other.

Ah well, better to have something than nothing at all. Bike is fixed now. Was it broken? Well, not really, but the brakes weren't working very well . . . the front brake cable had snapped, see. So, erm . . . I ordered a whole set, some of these v-brake things. It's quite scary now - I pull on my brake levers sharply and the wheels stop moving. Me and my bike have inertia, but as there's loads of friction between the rubber of my tires and the tarmac/paving of the stuff I cycle on, this usually means I too stop moving shortly after the wheels. Crazy.