The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the 2005 General Elections.

If you haven’t found the BBC H2G2 pages before, a tour can be found here.

And of course, no Hitchhiker’s post would be complete without a link to the film due out shortly.

Today marks the start of Einstein Year, celebrating 100 years since Einstein first published three papers in physics and generally making a name for himself.

To highlight the occasion, a Cambridge physicist got together with a BMX stunt rider to design the “Einstein Flip”, a new BMX trick, which I’m sure Ian will be performing for your edification and delight once he gets his dream BMX.

Which will probably be after he climbs out of the lake at Lyme Park.

As Ian has been spending so much time lately playing racing games, it seems only fair that he should have an oppurtunity to do this with his dream date. In an ideal world, she also would be car mad.

I think I’ve found the ideal woman, and what’s more, she’s available. At a price of course.

Exactly what it says on the tin.

I wonder if there’s enough of a niche market to start www.cookingforgeeks.com which is currently available.

If you want a sporting event with atmosphere, I can recommend watching Greece play at home.

I’ve just watched America beat Australia at softball, followed by Greece beating Canada. Its fair to say that the crowd were somewhat biased for the second game.

Again, pictures will follow on my return.

So far, I’m thoroughly enjoying the Olympics.

Its traditional for the British to complain about the weather, so here goes.

It is too hot in Greece by far.

Got to see a bit of the Olympics cycling yesterday and was fine for the first couple of hours, until the sun moved. Now one side of me is a nice shade of red, despite the gallon of sun cream applied. I’ll have to try and cook the other side now to even things up.

This evening we’re off to see the softball, then tomorrow the fencing. I’ve a few good pictures already which I hope to post on my return.

The deadline has now closed for submissions for the most beautiful word in the German language. The jury now have until October to consider the entries.

Sadly, of the ones listed in this article, “Geheimratsecken” is probably the one with the most personal relavance.

If you remember the indie band Northside, you may be pleased to hear that their lead vocalist and guitarist have combined with a number of other people to form a new band, Silent Partners. A short bio of the band, plus the option to download some demo songs can be found here. Both sites also carry information on forthcoming gigs.

Finally, if you feel you’ve been starved of indie music for far too long, have a look at this site, especially the archive section, where you can download several indie classics.

A million monkeys, a million typewriters. Something good was bound to come out of it eventually. You know what I mean?

In today’s world, the more you can hype something, the more you can charge for a worthless product. Coca-Cola have taken this to a new extreme though with Dasani, their new, premium bottled drinking water. According to the product’s website, it takes water, purifies it (with filtration and reverse osmosis – essesntially another filtration technique), then adds impurities minerals back in.

Interestingly, according to radio reports today which I have sadly been unable to verify online, Coca-Cola have today admitted that the starting point for this exercise is in fact tap-water from the bottling plant in Sidcup. Last time I checked, the tap-water in Britain was perfectly potable, so this has left me a bit puzzled. Still, if people want to pay around �0.80 / 500 ml for something they are essentially paying for already via their water rates, that’s their lookout.

If you haven’t yet been to India, get out here now and check out the architecture. The golden triangle of tourism, Delhi-Agra-Jaipur is truly amazing.

Highlights include the Taj Mahal (obviously), Agra Fort, Fatipur Sikri, Humayan’s Tomb, and pretty much all of Jaipur (aka the Pink City).

Tomorrow, we explore the Amber Fort, which we are hoping to arrive at via elephant.

Between the two of us we’ve taken nearly 1000 photographs so far, with many of the highlights of Jaipur to go. Be prepared for long evenings of “What I did on my holidays!”

Ian has requested that while on holiday, I try to update his blog, so here goes.

First off, congratulations to Chas and Maya who were married on Saturday. For those of you who find it difficult to believe that he has done this, fear not, there were plenty of photographs / witnesses!

So far, have seen the area in and around Mumbai (Bombay), including a hill station at Mahabaleshwar with stunning scenery (photographs to follow on return).

Today, we leave for Delhi on the overnight train, then its a hectic week, taking in the Taj Mahal, Delhi, Agra and Jaipur before returning to Mumbai.

Food here has been fantastic, but curry for about 20 consecutive meals does get a bit wearing, not least at the other end!