About 16 years I announced, to no-one in particular, that my next car would be a convertible and sure enough, when I emigrated to California 7 years later that’s exactly what I got. When that car died on me a couple of months ago I decided to do something very uncharacteristic - I chose a sensible car. That car just arrived over the weekend and I feel touched with a sadness that I was completely unprepared for.

On my inaugural drive to work this morning, each and every convertible that went by made my resolution stronger :

My next car will be a hybrid convertible

Julio has a list of all the features that would be in his dream MMO.My list would be very similar but with the word ‘not’ carefully inserted into most of the sentences.

But, then again, I haven’t played an online game for a long time and I haven’t really enjoyed one since Ultima Online so it probably does not matter what I think.