I was browsing The Annotated Pratchett File, v9.0 and was pleased to discover that Terry Pratchett has at least two more Tiffany Aching novels coming out, Wintersmith and When I Am Old I Shall Wear Midnight, and a new Watch novel, Thud, on the horizon. Apparently Wintersmith may be due in May, so galleys could exist…

Sharyn wrote about this 43 things thing over in her journal, so I did it for fun.

…for almost a full minute. I was reading the news today, and was impressed that the Australian government was donating $A1 billion to Indonesia to assist with the tsunami disaster recovery. A good and decent thing, I thought. Then I read on and saw that the Indonesians have to pay half of it back – interest free loans and all of that. I don’t understand. Increasing world debt doesn’t help. If Australia can genuinely afford to give the money, and it can, then it should. Also, this should be a time when Australia shows that it is part of South East Asia and that it is willing to reach out to its global neighbours in a time of need. sigh.

Sean Williams advises that the BBC has compiled a list of 100 things we didn’t know this time last year, which includes the above piece of information and the critical fact that crows, apparently, like the taste of windscreen-wiper blades.