Cold weather virus

Another cold snap in the last couple of days, accompanied with lots of weather warnings and advice. Such sentences as 'If you must go out, ensure you wear adequate clothing ...' And this is for a low of about 11 or 12 degrees C!

The Queen Mary 2 was in Hong Kong last week. She only stayed for 24 hours, and we hoped to get a glimpse of her as she left in the evening. Unfortunately, being so big, she couldn't dock in the usual spot in Victoria Harbour but had to be parked in some bleak container terminal, much to the disgust of many of the passengers. Thinking that the ship would be bound to leave via the spectacular harbour we waited around by the harbourside until well after the scheduled departure time of 7.00 p.m. but to no avail ... the next day we read that she in fact did come through the harbour at 8.00 (well, just after due to some late passengers) to see the nightly light-show. Oh well. The QE2's here next week for a couple of days, so perhaps we'll have better luck seeing her. Anyway, hanging around by the Central ferry piers gave us a good chance to try out the Beer Bay - a really cheap kiosk selling some decent bottled beers and a couple of decent ones on draft too (in plastic glasses but that makes it better somehow). I noticed they had pasties too!

I'm home a bit early today as I couldn't get much more done at work - a virus (trojan horse to be pedantic) had spread around our network during the day meaning we all had to physically disconnect and have our machines individually seen to ... they still hadn't got to mine when I decided to call it a day.