It pains me to say this, but..

Firefox 3 on Ubuntu 8.10 is a pile of poo and crashes far, far too often. Firefox 3 on Windows or Ubuntu 8.04 doesn't do this:

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Not even all of zone one...

Someone's published a map of how many steps it takes to walk between inner London tube stations:



You'd think they'd get one of the basic tourist gotchas right - it does not take 822+1,275 steps to get from Queensway to Bayswater... That route probably involves walking to Notting Hill Gate, turning round, going back past Queensway and up the road to Bayswater! I'm a bit dubious about Euston to King's Cross St Pancras being under seventy steps less than Euston Square to Kings X too, plus they're ignoring the District / Hammersmith and City version of Edgware Road, thus meaning you can't see what they reckon it would take to walk the Circle Line.

A more useful map would show the number of steps needed to make the changes at the various interchanges. Some are trivial 'cross the platform' ones, others are hikes in themselves.

I will do a review of 2008 soon, honest

Sparks, whose '21 albums in 21 days' series of concerts was a complete highlight of 2008 are back in London in March.

On the 20th they're doing a performance of their 21st album plus playing their 1974 breakthrough Kimono My House. On the 21st, the support album is the Giorgio Moroder-produced No. 1 In Heaven which they hadn't done properly live before last year.

If you can, you should see one of them...