And this one is included because, well, because I like it;

Shirley Temple. "I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph." [Quotes of the Day]

10:55:57 AM    

Today we have two quotes of the day, first a motto for the wibbly wobbly web;

Noelie Altito. "The shortest distance between two points is under construction." [Quotes of the Day]

10:53:04 AM    

Bangladesh sacks female doctors after media ridicule. [Reuters, via Yahoo! Sports]

File this one under 'funny old world'. For those who haven't clicked through the first line of the story provides all of the comedy moments;

"CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Three women gynaecologists appointed to look after the all-male Bangladeshi and Pakistani cricketers have been dropped after being ridiculed by the media, cricket officials said on Thursday."

9:55:50 AM    

Kevin Altis: PythonCardPrototype release 0.6.2.  [Scripting News]

Look, Dave obviously has a filter set up for interesting news and picked this up off Kevin's manila site before the announcement was even made. Is that cool or creepy?

This, fresh in from our correspondent - my conspiracy theory is blown out of the water because Kevin actually emailed Dave about the announcement.

9:31:41 AM    

Its not a quote of the day, but I like;

fugacious: Dictionary.com Word of the Day. fugacious [Dictionary.com Word of the Day]

Probably because we are having problems with the new system at work. We have just gone live with an upgraded system and are having all sorts of software, hardware and network problems. Dictionary.com has now provided the project team with a new catch phrase;

"My connection to the database was fugacious".

9:28:01 AM