21. Under the UK’s Tax Avoidance Schemes Regulations 2006, it is illegal not to tell the taxman anything you don’t want him to know, though you don’t have to tell him anything you don’t mind him knowing.

The World’s Strangest Laws – by Times Online

http://smokingapples.com/iphone/app-store-iphone/official-tumblr-app-for-the-iphone-debuts-its-good/

Water cannon robot (based on the fire-fighting robot) to fight Somali Pirates created in Russia. (link is in Russian as well)

You know… there’s a phrase almost impossible to translate from Russian which aptly describes the way we deal with an iPhone: hedgehogs cried and pricked themselves but kept chewing the cactus.

Had an absolutely lovely walk yesterdain in Hampstead Heath – surprisingly, it was like a bit of a summer in February – wonderful weather, blue skies and lots, lots, LOTS of people :)

London, tonight

Another idea for geolocation-related service. C’mon, I give it out for free!

Using GPS-enabled communication device, defining zones – “Home”, “Work”, “Parents”, “Tesco over the corner” Assigning each zone some tasks: “Home” -> “Pay the bill from nPower” “Work” -> “Talk to boss about holidays” “Parents” -> “Ask if they’ll take our cat for two [...]

Really surprised – just received a call from a very polite gentlemen who works for eBay, who told me (excluding all our mutual bows and scrapes) that they’re unhappy with the fact that I’m unhappy with my last transaction (I bought Nokia N800 for Natalie, and it didn’t have stylus so I left negative feedback [...]

Very amused by recently received “Watching the English” by Kate Fox. Ah yes I do understand that I’ll never reach that level of exposure into English culture and language and habits (bad habits included) that people will starting thinking I’m English – but that wasn’t a purpose anyway. What makes me [...]

On the question of optimism