Well, they say trouble comes in threes - in the last day or so I've busted a finger (playing in goal during five-a-side); been the victim of an earthquake* and now developed a streaming cold. Therefore Parallax View is officially feeling sorry for itself tonight.

*Well OK, it may have only been 4.8 on the Richter Scale, but being just 20 miles from the epicenter of the biggest earthquake this country has seen for 10, some say 60, years is probably going to be the closest this site ever gets to a warzone so I'm going to mention it even if I am the 457th blogger to do so today. And yes, like many others I did assume I was being broken into, and by a ten ton truck at that...