• Music: a lot of mobile phone trills -- someone needs my office mate I think

should I go to MOCCA or stay home and build my greenhouse?

More swishy dinosaurs! This is the latest mad dinosaur to come out of China, a Gigantoraptor erlianensis. "It belongs to a very unusual group of theropod dinosaurs, which are normally meat-eaters. But this one doesn't have any teeth, so what it ate is a mystery," comments Dr Paul Barrett, a dinosaur researcher from the Natural History Museum in London, UK.

My guess is a light salad and a glass of pinot grigio.



I'm name hunting today, which means finding out what sort of people name themselves after services or places. Right now, I'm listening to the oxfordshire on myspace. They're from Des Moines, Iowa, where "oxfordshire" presumably sounds strange and exotic. Haven't decided on anything yet, but have noted that "connexions" is one of those names with unfortunate associations.

Re title: Advice needed on going to New York (or even specifically to MOCCA), please. I've not got around to sorting it out yet, but hm could it be done?