We don't have boycott Penguin after all - they've backed down. Phew - that would have been nasty.

I had a nice little shopping trip on Saturday - £40 of Waterstones book tokens left over from my birthday. The branches near me are pretty crap, so I took a trip up to the lovely Piccadilly branch. All three volumes of Simon Schama's History of Britain, and Marcus du Sautoy's The Music of the Primes. That'll keep me busy.

There are a couple of techie things on my wishlist, but I had to promise not to spend the tokens on anything work related.