A very short post today, peeps. In fact, let's do it in Cope-style bullet points:

• Neodymium magnets (from www.powermagnetstore.com) are the coolest things on God's green Earth (hell, that capitalisation looks odd. As does the juxtaposition of 'God' and 'hell'; oh well...) and many of my nearest and dearest can expect a couple for Christmas. In the above pic – taken during a lunchtime birthday drink for Westy – we see three pennies linked together by the power of just one of the little beauties. And PC Pro's Deputy Editor David Fearon looking on in awe.

• The new Harry Potter film kicks all kinds of arse. British director = pawky Brit sense of humour. Mad-eye Moody surprisingly convincing. Voldemort genuinely scary = 1 generation of fucked-up kids. Scope utterly epic.

• I overheard a French mum asking her poorly kid on the bus today what he would like to eat that evening. She asked in French. He replied with a strong Sarf Lahdahn accent, "Fish fingers ... chips ... et du pain." That last with the softest French accent you ever heard. Vive la difference!

• Three people I know and whose blogs I read, today completely independently and for different reasons posted about David Bowie. Two specifically about Labyrinth. Have they tapped into some collective consciousness?

• I need to shave off all the hair on my head, bar the eyebrows. My hair is usually kept to a #1 and the beard kept down to a stubble at worst. I have cut neither since our Awards, with the net result that I look very furry, and my male pattern baldness (which gave rise to this site's URL) is more pronounced than ever.