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Article on the Waldseemuller map.

I've used the baking soda and white (distilled malt) vinegar tricks before, with some success. My car took a direct hit from Small Boy With Norovirus and, although I've used lots of commercial products, the odour is lingering, rather unpleasantly.

Winter vomiting disease. Winter poo like there is no tomorrow disease. Winter feel like utter crap disease. Winter how can three people manage to do all this in the bathroom simultaneously disease. Contagious for 48 hours, apparently.

Too silly for words.

I didn't know that Ralph (Mr Upton to you) had died, although I did know that he hadn't the best of health. I'd met him a couple of times when purchasing pumpkins and squashes from his door (and also knew his son Andy when he was postmaster in my parent's village). I wonder what the long term future for the pumpkin patch is?

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard (not known for being left wing) suggests that rumours of the Dollar's death may be premature.

WIPO advanced course on trademarks, industrial designs and geographical indications. I actually quite enjoy this stuff.

WIPO trademark geekery.

IP technical stuff. Nothing to see here, move along.

How handy. I have to type a lot of non-English words in English language documents (mostly proper nouns) some of which are rather close to English words – but not exact matches. Using this tip, I can make sure that they are highlighted for manual checking if I get them slightly wrong.

It's a rare event for me to agree with Peter Mandelson. But on this issue, he is right. So far this week, I've received five emails from companies telling me not to worry about deliveries from them – they have switched to courier companies to avoid the strike. For my own part, I'm encouraging my contacts to send documents by email instead of by post. The postal workers don't want to work harder than they do now – at this rate, they won't have any work at all.

Hopefully, if the conservation organisations can use the wild apples as flagship species, then efforts can be made to preserve tracts of the mountainous terrain that are also rich in other species.

This should probably also be true with PVR too.

Film shot from the forward gunners position and from behind the pilot of the BBMF Lancaster doing a flypast for last year's 65th anniversary of the raids on the Ruhr dams. Note the use of mark 1 map (no GPS), the cramped conditions and the sheer noise. Brilliant.

Early days, but hopeful.

Complete list of species included in the CITES appendices.

Hurrah! New Russian missions to Venus.

Interview with The xx.

Utterly fantastic on last week's Jools (even though they were in the shadow of the awesome Gladys Knight – chalk and cheese, though)- like a cross between early Cure, the Delgados, Lullabies-era Cocteaus and a whole bunch of other good shoe-gazing, new wave, electro stuff, but somehow with added soul. Their cover of Womack and Womack's Teardrops (long one of my favourite songs) is just stupendous.