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Impressed with it so far. Never mind the headline features, it's packed full of small improvements. My Desktop icons now know that the Dock is on the right and arrange themselves so as not to overlap it. I can have iChat logged into Google Chat and LJ Chat at the same time. I get previews of fonts. Spotlight is much faster, and usable as an application launcher. It will read 2GB SD cards on my USB card reader. And so on and so on.

Apart from that, Time Machine is pretty but I'll need to remember to plug in the external drive from time to time. Coverflow looks actually useful for browsing directories with images in them. I don't mind the translucent menu bar. Safari still doesn't have a good adblocker, and several of the existing ones don't work any more, so I'm sticking with Firefox for now -- hopefully 3.0 will look more like a Mac application.

http://www.nokia.com/A4136017?category=n810

No information currently available except for these pictures.

They've added a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, thus fixing the main problem with the N800. Also looks like better camera placement. I'm not sure where they've put most of the buttons, but there's no picture of the top.

Two of the images have a screenshot of a map. If they've added built-in GPS as well, then this is an incredibly useful little gadget.

Mammals: 5 Brown Rat.

If you're writing books set in a society where there are inherited titles or offices, it's a good idea to know the difference between an heir apparent and an heir presumptive. Especially if you're going to use one or both of those terms. This means you, K J Parker and David Weber.

Apparently, the Tories have decided to raise the stamp duty threshold to £250,000 for first-time buyers only. Can anyone come up with a workable definition of a first-time buyer for purposes of this policy (remember that the taxman can't ask to see documents more than seven years old)?

Birds: 52 Reed Bunting (I'm fairly sure, but no photo). And it was a good day out in general, with a jay, grey wagtail (first time since January), two herons, kingfisher, fox and turtle. Some photos are ( behind the cut. )

Birds: 51 Willow Warbler (no photo).

Birds: 50 Green Woodpecker.

( A couple of rather blurry photos behind the cut. )