Status-Q

For those in the Cambridge area not heading for Strawberry Fair to smoke illegal substances, I'd strongly recommend the Cambridgeshire Art Fair at Chilworth Hall, the best art exhibition/sale I've been to in a long time.

The quality of work was, I thought, very high, and with nearly 50 exhibitors from all over the country, many of them galleries showing several artists, there's bound to be something to suit everyone's tastes, if not their budgets.

Highly recommended, but the last day is tomorrow, so you'll need to be quick.

On Sunday morning we had a brief power outage at home. Everything went quiet, and my little electricity monitor, which normally shows a usage of somewhere around 1kW, displayed a number I hadn't seen before:

All of a sudden, I understood the appeal of trying to generate your own power and get 'off the grid'. It must be quite satisfying to see how low you can get this number in normal daily life.

Hee hee.... this is fabulous...

At the 'rapture', when all good Christians will be whisked away to heaven, they may be kicking themselves that they didn't leave behind some words of wisdom for their loved ones below, perhaps a last plea for them to accept the gospel. My knowledge of escatological theology is far too rusty for me to remember whether changing your mind at this stage is actually an option still on offer, but if it is, I'd have thought that the sudden disappearance of millions of people would be enough of a hint that it might be worth considering.

However, if you're still worried, you can relax because there is, of course, a web service to cater even for this. At YouveBeenLeftBehind.com you can upload and store securely all your important messages and documents, which will automatically be sent by email to those who are left, a few days after the rapture occurs.

You can include your bank account details, powers of attorney etc so that your unfortunate friends and relatives can have fewer legal hassles after you've gone because, let's face it, that's the last thing anyone wants to worry about as they prepare for the everlasting fires of Hell.

The Telectroscope looks very cool, and some of the ideas further down in Tom Taylor's post are just the kind of things we want to do with CODA before long.