Today marks 30 consecutive daily posts on the Hecat Original Blog, thanks to a brazen challenge from the estimable Unblahg. The HOB is now ahead by one, thanks to the Unblahg author's comfy couch. There will be no resting on laurels, however, as I've come to enjoy the mental stimulation and challenge of coming up with something potentially interesting each day. I've not yet managed to badger anyone into starting their own, but I still hope to inspire/guilt readers (you know who you are) into sharing their wit, if only in the comments section.

Anyway, ad-in.

We're taking a typically planned-at-the-last-minute vacation this week. Flights to Italy were looking good, but the weather is looking wet. Prague is a backup option.

The blog has been seeded with content for the next few days, scheduled to appear with the Nucleus postdated draft option.

Begun in 2003, converted from blosxom to nanoblogger in 2006, the Hecat Original Blog now runs Nucleus.