After the gruelling - not to mention largely gruesome - experience of three exams in three days, I celebrated my freedom last night with...

A headache.

One could debate as to whether this constitutes an anti-climax or not.

I do however have a nice pile of books to enlighten and enrich my mind (and take my fingers away from that harsh mistress, the keyboard).

Today I read Maureen Dowd's Are Men Necessary? Obviously the title is rhetorical, because there's a very short answer to be given - shorter than 330 pages - if the question was literal.

Next: finishing off Brideshead Revisited, marching on to Elizabeth Wilson's Shostakovich: A Life Remembered, Dawkins' The Ancestor's Tale (Blessed be lucid writing), Geoffrey Robertson's The Tyrannicide Brief, Buber's Between Man and Man and maybe, if I can rustle up a brain cell or two, some Adorno.

Thank god, says the atheist, there are other worlds readily accessible via a book.

Meanwhile, two good links for amusement.
Roll On Friday, for 'bored solicitors'. And bored law students, too!
Buglear Bate. A firm of solicitors with the by-line: Leases, transfers, conveyances, indentures, vesting assents: We love 'em.

The end of the ABC as we know it.

Windschuttle appointed to ABC board.

As I am foaming at the mouth, constructive commentary is a bit beyond me right now. So all I'll say is, thank christ I'm leaving the country as soon as is practicable. Only in Howard's Australia would it seem okay to appoint someone like that, especially as they already have Albrechtson.

Dear god. Imagine if the BBC appointed David Irving as one of their governors, or Nick bloody Griffin. But no, this is 'fair and balanced'.

There I was, thinking that my pimpin' of Pimp My Snack would have nothing to do with law, and yet lo and behold, the site received a C&D letter from Viacom over the weekend, because Viacom allegedly owns the trade mark to 'Pimp My...'

And so now the website is called 'Pimp That Snack'.

All in all, lots of interesting questions raised about how Australian trade mark law would approach this, and just in time for my exam revision, too!