Return of the Mac

... And I’m back in the room. For nearly a week it looked as if my computer was dead and I was going to have to pay through the arse to resurrect what was left of its memory. However, psychonomy visited and performed his dark magic (students of the occult should note that the rituals seem to consist mainly of swearing), the result of which is that, as far as I can make out, my machine is out of its coma and its memory is unaffected. Apparently, I need do no more than (a) buy an external hard drive to properly back stuff up and (b) owe psychonomy approximately a vat of cider. This is all good.

I’ve wanted to mention a fair few things over the past week but for now I’ll merely mention this touching and inspiring story of a man who appears to have chased his dream and finally got what he had always desired:

Man who repeatedly jumped out at emergency vehicles killed by emergency vehicle

Teacake

The UK Treasury is facing a £3.5m bill because of VAT wrongly imposed on a Marks and Spencer teacake, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled.

Customers paid VAT for 20 years before the authorities accepted the product [wrongly classed as a biscuit] was a cake, which does not command VAT. [BBC]