Warning

I am going to Cambridge tomorrow to catch up with a couple of friends of mine. Blogging will be intermittent, but there will likely still be some.

Also, Instapundit mentions there has been an very big earthquake in Japan. 8.0 on the Richter scale is very rare, but the area that the quake hit is a long way from areas of mass habitation. There are only five million people on the island of Hokkaido, and most of these are in the south-west, either in or near Sapparo. The rest of the island is very sparsely populated. The earthquake has hit just off the south-east, and I cannot imagine the death toll from the quake will be high, unless the Tsunamis do some serious damage.