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Work continues to take up pretty much all of my time at the moment, which is why it's taken the best part of a week for me to get round to creating an entry for March. The job I'm doing is interesting stuff, but it doesn't leave me much in the way of spare time; this year's attempt at FAWM was a failure, although I did manage to double the number of songs I wrote compared with last year. I'm also back in a shirt-and-tie office environment, so last Sunday afternoon found me ironing a stack of shirts; it's a chore I really hadn't missed.

Now it's the weekend, and I think I'm coming down with a cold. Urgh.

OUT THERE

I walked to Steve's Shop this morning to buy some milk and a paper - and the Guardian's Weekend magazine turned out to be a lot more interesting than usual. Aside from an interview with Matt Smith, the new Doctor Who, there's a fascinating article by Jon Ronson (of Men Who Stare At Goats fame) about a chat he had recently with Paul Davies from Arizona State University. Professor Davies is chair of the SETI post-detection task group, and he's got a book out called The Eerie Silence which considers why it might be that SETI (the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) has yet to discover any evidence of life out there beyond one tantalising, seventy-two-second blip. It's his job to organise the response should a signal ever be detected; that's quite a responsibility, to say the least. Fortunately the interview makes it clear that the responsibility is in good hands.