Monday notes

Nice bright day, fairly breezy but not too cold. Thermometer shows 13C. Tomorrow is a different story, with rain spreading in from the Atlantic overnight. Should improve later in the day.

I am just fed up with the election-that-was-not. Turned off the telly a minute ago, which showed PM Gordon Brown talking about it to a horde of journalists at No 10. It is a piece of non-news if ever there was one. If anyone in the UK has access to BBC4, they should watch House of Cards tonight, Wednesday and Thursday at 9pm. It's a gripping yarn of political intrigue and murder most foul. I first watched it back in 1990. You may well think that, I couldn't possibly comment.

When I first joined AOL I became involved with a chatroom, which I've since left. There were several folks there who were quite literally two-faced, presenting two different identities on-line, although you'd never see them about at the same time. I am also aware that J-land in the USA works on a higher level than perhaps in the UK. By higher level I mean that people are more likely to know each other from actual contact, by phone or meeting. The outcome can work both ways, either nice or nasty. But the two-facedness can still emerge, nonetheless. I'm aware I'm being cryptic, but cannot go into details.