Auntie Kiki arrived on Saturday and we went out for lunch. Yesterday we went over to our relatives in Redditch for Sunday lunch and she's now staying over at ours for the duration.

In amongst all the socialising, I've been chipping away at work, trying to flog my uni books on Amazon (no one responded to the ad I put up in the department which would indicate to me someone removed it) and playing with Facebook, my new social toy. As a principle, I hate social network tools, not because of what they represent (which is brilliant) but generally how badly they are made.

MySpace (crap), Bebo (better) but the pick of the bunch has to be Facebook which everyone I know has been telling me to get on for ages, but until this week it was impossible as they weren't allowing you on without an alumni email address. That situation is no more. You can sign up whoever you are, whatever you do, so I did and have been very impressed. Finally a site that isn't an overwhelming assault on your eyes, and with some genuinely useful features. I urge you to use this one if you use no other. All we need now is cross-network integration...

I'm over the moon to here the two cheapest versions of Vista include a no-running-in-virtualisation clause in the EULA. Nice one Microsoft.