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Smart London to Brighton rally pictures .

Preview of the video for "White & Nerdy" from Weird Al's new album (out Tuesday). If you're reading this blog, it will probably amuse you - and apply to you, quite possibly.

You know you're a real company when you have a meeting table.

Of course it look like I might have a few tweaks to make to get blogging to work perfectly...

-- This Orange Multi Media Message was sent wirefree from an Orange MMS phone. If you would like to reply, please either text, phone or send a photo message to the sender directly by using the phone number listed in the sender's address. To learn more about Orange's Multi Media Messaging Service, find us on the Web at http://www.orange.co.uk/mms I never cease to be amazed by technology, even when i probably shouldn't be. I've been emailing and surfing on my new phone here, and it works very well. I've not knowingly used an EDGE network before either.

Alas, I don't have any good techie questions to ask at the moment, but I'm sure I'll think of some to test Qunu with.

Or rather, ears...

Weird Al has just released a preview track from his forthcoming album, Straight Outta Lynwood . It's on his MySpace site, along with another track which I believe won't make the album - You're Pitiful - which I now hear in my head whenever James Blunt is played at me.

Today, a hawk took down a starling in the garden. I was glad it wasn't one of the more interesting / rarer birds!

Playing with Lego NXT. Writing programmes with little icons on the iMac; downloading them via Bluetooth; driving motors, playing with sensors, trying to figure out these complicated new Lego parts... It's rather fun.

The trendy wine of the moment! For once I am up to date with the in-crowd :) Not the cheapest - you need to go to Waitrose, or other posh shops apparently. But it's unusual and good. Waitrose now has a wine chiller thingy near the dessert wines, so I was able to chill this bottle rapidly (4 minutes) before taking it home.

is one heck of a lot of wires. Nonetheless, I'm chuffed - new dev kit to play with (from Ember ), and plenty of different shades of red to admire.

Lots of roadsters, too :)

Lots of cars this month!

Gray turned 50 today. I met Taco for the first time: Gray looked splendid as usual Paul wore his new glasses There was cake

I was in London yesterday for Claire's hen night - a super time was had by all, between the fondant fancies, garlic bread, Mamma Mia, and lovely cocktails... We didn't half feel underdressed compared to the hens on stage at the show, though!

Paul's new car arrived yesterday :) He is very happy about this! We're now a 2-Smart household, although his rather outshines mine...

In the background of the last post, you can see Ikea desks. We have a lot of Ikea furniture here; it's been something of a trial unloading, unpacking and building it in the current hot weather. At least we were sober , though! (Thanks to GMSV for the link!) It takes 2 PhDs in Engineering to assemble some items though.

It's been a busy couple of weeks as we moved office. Now we are nearly settled in the new place, although it's a tad hot at the moment... This shows only a tiny fraction of our cardboard mountain though. Deliveries keep coming, and so it's lucky we have clear carpet space to pile packaging on. We are slowly filling up the space with desks (and people) though.