Minutes after I went to bed last night I got an Instant Message from Richard and Michelle in Dublin. They were sitting in an Internet Cafe in the main street of Dublin, preparing to fly to Paris [they should be there now], and then on to Rome in three days time. So cool… 12 months ago the roles were reversed when I MSN’ed Richard from a Starbucks across the road from the British Museum. Technology is so cool.

I just saw that Professor Stephen Hawking is getting a lot worse with his Motor Neurone disease. So much so that he is no longer able to manipulate his speaking machine with his hand. He now needs to use his eyes to blink at a machine in code to speak. This I imagine would not be easy.

Right now i need to get ready to go over to North Ryde. Hey… I just remembered. They have a Borders over there, and a Dick Smith… I might drop in there after the meeting.