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Ah, Friday night in the 'burbs, dinner with the parents in law and a 9:30 ride home from Mt Waverley to Oakleigh. A simple task it seems!

It was cold, damn cold. Less than 10°C as I left the comfy warm house, then 58km/hr down Forster road is an eye-wateringly shocking wake up.

Onto the bike track from Mt Waverley to Oakleigh, No moon, no lane markings, overhanging bushes and no lights on the path. Of course there are no lights — its a bike path sillly, and everyone knows that these are only used on nice sunny Sundays for recreation! The 5W Nightstick light helps, but on an unfamiliar track it all gets very exciting. Go slow and watch for stealth dogs 'n joggers.

...and then there's the people you meet.

WTF is this guy doing standing in the middle of the bike track in a duffle coat? As I cruised carefully past, his invisible mate spraying graffiti up on the freeway underpass screamed abuse down and nearly scared the crap out of me.

Across Dandenong road at the lights at Atkinson street and start the last stretch up the hill, more adrenalin as the white P-plate decorated Commodore screeches around the corner behind me, passenger sticks his head out the window screaming "KILL THE C### ON THE BIKE!", driver swerves at me but is going too fast, misjudges, almost goes up the kerb 2m in front of me, spins the tyres plastering me with gravel and burning rubber and tears off over the hill. The adrenalin keeps me warm for the last kilometre or so home.

Topped the night off with the Nightstick battery going flat two blocks from home, very little warning, just a brief dip in the light then a quick fade to yellow to orange and off. I really must get myself a backup LED light....

Aint riding a bike in Melbourne fun.

Dear Amazon.com Customer,

We've noticed that customers who have purchased or rated books by Leslie Charteris have also purchased “Operative Surgical Procedures: DVD and Handbook” (A Hodder Arnold Publication) by Mo S. Baguneid.

For those who don't know, Leslie Charteris is the author of "The Saint" novells, rollicking good pulp adventures from the 1930-1950s.

I think they don't have a large enough pool of people who bought X also bought Y, so small oddities can propogate through the system. Either that or their software is simply broken.

Favourite Amazon ads anyone?

I think I buggered Facebook's advertising analyser by have a status message saying I was "reading advertising on facebook about advertising on facebook." For about three days I got some very blank ads for incredibly generic things, nothing focused at all.