The latest bookshelf arrives tomorrow morning.

There is now really no more room for books once this one is full. I must either stop buying books, or move to somewhere with more room for bookshelves.

Needless to say, the former is not likely.

Finished the Akabane half marathon in 1h44m59s. Not too bad. Improvement of over 20 minutes on the last effort.

But it was the worst-organised event I've ever seen. Seemed like a money-making event, cram them in, forget the rest. 15 minute queues for the toilets. 10 minutes for the luggage storage, which overflowed outside. No fruit or energy on the route. Only two water stops, at 10km and 15km, and they ran out of paper cups for water. I was nearer the front, so got a second-hand cup they pulled from the rubbish bin. Probably more than half the people only got one water stop at 10km. Others queued at 15km using their hands to get water at a hosepipe. In winter, it was irresponsible; in summer, it would have been deadly.

No way will I go back there again.

Moving Windmills

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Enough.

Rupert Murdoch's papers are making less money than they used to, so he decides to try and charge Google and other search engines for driving people to his sites.

Kyodo Tsushin in Japan just announced that they are making less money than they used to, because of competition from blogs and the challenges of adapting to the internet. So they are going to write better stories.

I wonder which will survive.