I needed to excuse myself from Armour over the weekend. I have not been especially prone to protracted cold symptoms since becoming a vegetarian, so I am at a loss to explain why this particular illness was so difficult to shake.

I could skim through the news—Hunter, “Jeff”, Paris. But it’s all familiar ground.

A bit on moral rights, the forgotten component in copyright discussion.

Mary Hopkin’s three Apple LPs are being released as special, limited-edition Japanese LP replica CDs. Cardsleeve replicas of the The Iveys and Badfinger Apple catalogue were announced a week or so ago.

A 3-volume set, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson, will be published by Andrews McMeel on 1 September.

A Cotswold Rail train has been named in Joe Strummer’s honour.

I am under the weather, which you may use as an excuse for my terse posts here of late. A cold, probably, never obviously full-blown but it has lingered for days.