Sigh.

Davina : "What has the Big Brother experience taught you?"
Emma : "Nothing - nowt"

So, violent confrontations, cake bras and 24 hour CCTV surveillance are normal features of Emma's life? Mind you, she does live in Oldham ...

Two bits of good news for geeks -

SpaceShipOne has successfully flown 100km into space. I'd always thought that re-usable rocket planes were a far more elegant solution to getting into orbit than the big dumb rockets pointing straight up. Chuck Yaeger and the other X pilots of the 50s were the true pioneers of the space race.

Secondly, the various legal problems that have dogged the new radio production of the last three Hitchhiker novels appear to have been resolved and it's been scheduled for broadcast on Radio 4 starting on the 21st of September - you can hear a clip from it here. I'm really looking forward to this, as I've enjoyed Dirk Maggs' other 'audio movies', particularly his adaptation of Stephen Baxter's Voyage about an alternate history where NASA put it's efforts into a manned flight to Mars.