I'm after a new keyboard: it needs to have very good action (there is a reason my current keyboard is about 7 years old), be black or grey (to match my new Logitech Cordless Click! Plus mouse), and ideally have an integrated USB hub (into which I can plug the dongle for the mouse) or be wireless (and share the dongle that came with my mouse). It must not be a "natural" keyboard, although the Microsoft Comfort range is interesting. The only keyboard I've found so far which has all of these is an IBM USB keyboard, which costs £60...

Any ideas? Mail me!

Update: so I'm probably going to order the Apple USB keyboard (even though it's white). Does anyone know how the keyboard layout differs from the "standard" PC British layout?

Update: Apple USB keyboard ordered. Thanks for the suggestions!

NP: Blue Album, Orbital

• Wait before attempting to read a new CD to let the disc spin up
• Protect against invalid iterators when playing
• Handle the file chooser returning NULL
• Fix MusicBrainz results with multiple albums (David Mandelberg)
• Handle G_FILENAME_ENCODING (Colin Leroy)

The trip to see him was... a challenge. In theory a train to Norwich only takes 2:20, but it ended up taking us over 3:40... and Ely station (Station Of The Year 1987, don't you know) is surprisingly cold when waiting there for half an hour.

We can't wait for him/her to arrive (current favourite names for the second choice, a girl, are Ella or Bess), and really hope the house move hurries along, we're getting the dog on the 17th December and were planning on completing on the 1st, but that is looking more and more unlikely.

The restaurant is in the style of a 60's diner, and we even got a booth which was great, as we had a bit more privacy.

It was great to see Eva and Saadia again, it's been months since we've seen Saadia and the last time we saw Eva was in February...

NP: Respect, Aretha Franklin

I'm still not sure that this isn't some great spoof or prank. Maybe someone broke in and changed the front page just as it went to press? What do we have here:

• Diana
• Gypsies
• Asylum Seekers
• Banned Sacred Items Of Our Wonderful Culture (in this instance, Santa and Christmas lights). Hard to believe as it's probably not true.
• Girls in Short Skirts. For once this isn't a token shot of some B-list celebrity, but a genuine story about how Clare Bernal's murderer had taken cocaine.

Marvellous stuff. I can only imagine the Express has taken to being a parody of itself...

NP: Individuality, Rachelle Ferrell

Why do I seem to attract this sort of person?

Update: Note that there should be quotation marks around first line, some renderers are ignoring the <q> element and not rendering the quotes. Those quotes change the meaning of this post quite a bit!

NP: Best Of, Stevie Wonder

Speaking of which, do you love Open Source? Opened Hand are on the look out for interesting developers; skills in embedded Linux, GTK+, and DBus are an advantage. If you think you are up to it, email us.

NP: August and Everything After, Counting Crows

Ideally I'd switch to another MTA, as long as it's simple and will automatically change the delivery method depending on some external data (generally the name of the current network interface). Any suggestions? Or should I start reviewing the bugs and hijack the package?

Update: Oliver Kurth, previously absent maintainer of MasqMail, just did a new upstream release and uploaded to Debian. Dilemma over!

NP: In Between Dreams, Jack Johnson.

Update: just found out that the new series will start on the 11^th November. Back of the net!

Alternatively a third series of Green Wing would be great, if you are listening Channel 4.

NP: The Ultimate Best Ibiza Summer Chill-out Album Ever (Disc 1), or something similar.

In other news, we finally got the mortgage agreed so hopefully will be moving house in December.

NP: Bitches Brew, Miles Davis