It’s Dervala‘s birthday tomorrow.  It was George’s birthday yesterday.  Happy birthday to all.

My correspondent, Fatwalla T. Jones, suggests the recent concern in these quarters re South African plonk may be misplaced.  They claim after all to be but the best South African wine for the money.   I don’t see any claims about being in business to enrich the lives of their workers or anything like that.  “Let them eat grapes,” is how Fatwalla T. Jones puts it.

Fatwalla also pointed me toward this interesting bit via techmeme… can’t own your own words after you give them away on a public web community service, I think.