Older than Jesus

I'm 34. How did that happen?
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The camera has arrived. It's a dinky little thing, smaller than my fist, and quite capable of being accidentally dropped into a mug of tea. Or as the manual has it: 86x40x68mm

I'm actually very impressed with the picture quality for the price - the highest resolution is 2048x1836, and apparantly non-interpolated. Even my test pictures are crisp and clear.

It takes MMC/SD cards, and should you wish to use is as a dictaphone, will record sound.

Of course it's still a toy, nothing like a professional affair. There's two focal lengths - near and far. It takes 8 seconds to take a snap (while displaying the word 'Snap' on the LCD). There's no mains supply socket. And there seems no way to prevent it putting a date and time stamp on each image.
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Most of last evening was spent (once again) reinstalling windows on Simon M's computer. And most of this evening was spent putting on software and security that will hopefully be effective this time.

He cooked us the now traditional health-conscious and sensible meal. Followed by two big helpings of chocolate profiteroles. I think I have chocolate poisioning.

We watched Richard Dawkins telling us why religion is "The Root of All Evil", followed by some pseudo-historian (Michael Burleigh) telling us why atheism causes all the world's problems in "Dark Enlightenment".

The central argument of the latter was: Religion makes people moral, so faithless people are all immoral, so all immorality is due to faithlessness.

Also, some regimes that don't use religion as propaganda are tyranies, therefore irreligion causes tyrany, and religion prevents it. But only if it's catholic. Here it is from the horse's mouth.

The programme was spectacularly inept, and quite possibly broadcast simply to stir up a debate. Where "debate" means "shouting match".
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So, what should I do for my birthday? Be really self-indulgent and get chocolate poisoning again? Have a quiet day-in reading calculus? Watch 12 solid hours of 70s science fiction? There's no end of little jobs need doing.

Hmmm. I'll let you know.