Mo Mowlam RIP

Mo Mowlam was about the most charasmatic and downright human politician the current UK government produced, and I think will be remembered long after Tony Blair and his like are lost to the past. The Guardian has some choice quotes from Mowlam, but the one I recall best is a story about some insensitive or perhaps simply unthinking person (reporter? fellow politician?) calling her out on the fact that she was wearing, horror of horrors, a wig. Mowlam responded to the effect that she'd just undergone chemotherapy and was suffering the resultant hair-loss, and the questioner shriveled up with the embarassment he or she'd intended to cause. Wonderful.

that new harddrive scent

New harddrive arrived, installed, and being reloaded with fresh OS as I type. Yay for Komplett!