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I just noticed something today.

Evening Standard columnist Anne McElvoy looks like a man.

Now, I don’t mean this in a crass “hurr hurrr she looks like bloke I wouldn’t would you lads” sort of way. No, I mean she looks like a very specific man. Someone really familiar.
But I can’t work out for the life of me who it is.

It’s clearly a quite fine-featured, very pretty sort of guy. I briefly wondered if it might be Ioan “Hornblower” Gruffudd, and yeah, there’s a certain resemblance there, but I’m not quite convinced that he’s the one. So I put it out to you, my loyal 2½ readers – name that dude. Who’s the sneaky gent who’s dragging up, sneaking into the Standard offices off High Street Ken, and writing opinion columns? Extra credit given for any nifty photo comparisons, emailed to the usual address.

(And anyone who says “it’s Nick Cohen” is getting IP-banned)

Oooh. A big welcome to any fun new people who might be passing through as a result of Teresa’s post. I swear, if I wasn’t in the process of moving house, moving job, moving hosting company and redoing the site right now, there’d be a small chance of finding something worth reading here…

But do feel free to pull up a chair, make yourselves comfortable. Sorry about all the boxes. Hey, I think there’s a bottle of wine open. Um… not sure there’s any clean glasses. Is a mug okay?

UPDATE: Bloody hell, that actually worked. It’s all still here. Well, most of it. Might be some images missing. I have an evening of re-uploading ahead. Hmmm. Might take the opportunity to upgrade to WP 2.0.2 while I’m at it…

UPDATE UPDATE: Wow, this is going great. WP 2.0.2’s quite pretty, isn’t it? Right, now to install the IE-breaking functionality.

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE: Yup, now I’m just playing around with new masthead designs. Do you like it? Doesn’t really fit in with the rest of the site right now, but I’m thinking of doing some minor redecorating. I want more whitespace. Anyway, I’ll change it back to the old one in a day or so. Just fiddling.

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE: See? A little bit more whitespace. Told you.

Oi oi – I’m moving the hosting for the site to a different company over the next few days. So don’t be surprised if there’s suddenly no website here at some point in the near future. It shall return. Oh, yes, it shall return.

Fig. 1: Artist’s impression of the new version of the site

Bobbie Johnson is the Guardian’s technology correspondent:

Ultimately, it seems, everything comes down to an interpretation of what rows of zeroes and ones means. Is a digital file real? Is digital music still music? What does this mean for other dotcoms and digital distribution firms?

“Is a digital file real?” Bloody hellfire. He’s like Jackie Ashley with linguistics, except he’s sodding paid to write about this stuff.

And no, the case (which was about trademark law) didn’t come down to anything like that. Because that would have been a stupid thing to have a lawsuit about.

Tony Blair thinks Labour got nobbed in the election because they weren’t Web 2.0 enough.

Naturally, he’s asked Hazel Blears to sort it out. For she has awesome Ruby on Rails skillz.

(I’m sure there’s a joke in here somewhere about the collaborative social tagging of criminals, but it’s late and I’m tired.)