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I’ve been helping my son Nykolai with his spelling home work. It’s rather comical, if a little sad, to watch him come to grips with the perils of pronouncing the English language. You really have to wonder how English can become the defacto language of business and technology around the world….

The subject motivated me enough to create a new “g-rant” entry about it. It’s lurking along with a few other entries over in the Soap Box area :)

Excitement is building – the BBC is going to play a new Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series based on the remaining books from the “trilogy.” They’re getting the old cast together again.

There’s also a movie being made and the trailer has just been released. Not showing much – just text and stars. A number of us are rather nervous that it’s going to be stuffed up (much as we’re wondering just how bad the Thunderbirds movie will be :)

Meanwhile, I’m listening to the original Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy radio series. It can be found out there on the ‘net in MP3 format and downloaded. Seriously funny stuff :)

After the session at Shamiana a bunch of us went back to the Abode club where I wound up doing the “Last DJ Standing” set once again. Lots of fun although thanks to a combination of tired and beer, I was fading fast at the end and have dim memories of shutting down, walking home and collapsing in a chair near the heater :)

On Friday night I was playing at the Platinum Exclusive dinner party in Shamiana, a very stylish restaurant in the city. I wound up on the decks from about 9pm to 1am, playing from background dinner/cocktail sounds through to club beats and cruisy, groovy sounds as the night picked up. I handed over to Miss Rene at 1am, thinking that she would be spinning until 3am, but the night wound up finishing not long after 2am. Whoops. Major embarrassment and apologies to Miss Rene – if I’d known, I would have cleared the decks way earlier.