Happy New Year's Eve, everyone, and I trust you're as pleased as I am at the new knighthood for Terry Pratchett.  I'm a teensy bit dubious about the honours system, but I wholeheartedly approve of this one.  Couldn't happen to a finer fellow.

I also point you to the, I hope, measured response the Guardian has given me the opportunity to make about the whole health hazard thing from the Daily Mail.  No great calls for unity thus far, but I'll keep saying it.  Maybe one day it'll stick.

Here's to 2009!  A beans-on-toast year in the making if there ever was one.