Day 1006

Rare news these days: Labour divisions! Tony Blair's Clause 4 stuff. Why he made an issue of it last year in the first place I don't know. They should just add 'where suitable' at the end, and take out the 'hand and brain' stuff: as Tony Benn says, a miner uses his brain, a writer his hands. It was written in 1918 after all and sounds like one of the more speechifying bits from Philanthropists. The 1979 position was ideal - just the natural monopolies Been feeling a bit more political recently, what with Roy Hattersley reading his autobiography on the radio.

Nice quiet day: wrote a no-nonsense mono C .PCX viewer. Watched last week's Quantum Leap, an absolutely triffic one What Price Gloria? where he was a (woman) secretary in 1961. When QL manages to evoke place, time and structure/system it does, and comes up with compelling telly. I forgot I was watching telly in fact. Which is the highest praise you can give any programme.

Tons more scanning in the evening at all resolutions, and not a crash in sight. I've scanned 1.2M of magazine material with no probs at all now. Why it's being so co-operative I don't know. And I wish I'd discovered the total acceptability of 100dpi for big pics earlier.