I've spent all day clearing my Inbox of unreplied to emails - If I ever let it get like that again, somebody shoot me. If you have been expecting an email from me and didn't get a reply, then I send my apologies and advise you to resend your email.

For those that are interested about joining the London ambulance service... We aren't recruiting. Sorry.

In a fit of 'doing things', I've signed up on Livejournal, Facebook and Myspace. I'll happily accept 'friends' from anywhere, but I would ask that you tell me a little about yourself - there is a bit more on this over here. I'm still playing around with them, as well as wondering what kind of content to put up on there, chances are that they will remain mostly unused or used for small dumps of writing.

Additionally loads of people read my Twitter feed - I'd be interested in finding out who all you lot are as well... I like finding out about people who know me because of this site.

Tomorrow is Laura's audition for X-Factor at Arsenal, I'll be with her and I may post up some pictures somewhere.

I'm curious, are there any people who work with leather reading this blog? How about blacksmiths? Preferably within a couple of hours drive of London - it's for an article that I'd like to write.

Further non-ambulance blithering will be on Mental Kipple, which I have been shamefully neglecting.

Finally two nice ambulance links sent to me by readers-

A lovely written article about the Yorkshire ambulance service following the 'Tonight' programme. (Thanks Clive).

Then a story about a 'patient' who would have suffered from a broken nose had I been sent to him. (Thanks Matt)

So it's not just St Georges day today - it is also International Pixel-Stained Technopeasants Day, go and have a look for lots of crunchy free stuff. I've included my own stuff. By coincidence I only signed up to Livejournal today.

Tip of the hat to Warren Ellis.

It's just over a week til the Open Rights Group's Support ORG (and Party!) event, at which there will be public domain DJs, free culture goodie bags and the chance to win some really cool schwag. Our special guest speaker is the wonderful Danny O'Brien, who is always fantastic value for money and well worth coming along to see. So, if that sounds like fun, come along - it's free! Well... it's sort of free - we just ask that you bring someone who might like to become a new ORG supporter.

If you can't make it, then you can still support ORG by buying a raffle ticket for just £2.50 (link to PayPal is at the bottom of that page). Prizes up for grabs include:

* a signed copy of Code 2.0 from Lawrence Lessig
* £150 in O’Reilly book vouchers
* a signed copy of the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property from Andrew Gowers
* a signed copy of Bruce Schneier's Beyond Fear
* a set of a dozen Beatpick compilations
* a signed author's galley of Cory Doctorow's next novel, Little Brother and the opportunity to be written into it
* ... and the pièce de résistance, as far as I am concerned - a 'very battered keyboard with a key missing and everything!', signed by our Patron, Neil Gaiman.

Many thanks to everyone who has donated! Buy your tickets on the night, or online via PayPal. At £2.50 each, they're a snip!

(Nicked from Suw's Blog)

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