You'll be delighted to know, I'm sure, that I passed my driving theory test. 34 out of 35 on the theory, 65 out of 75 on the hazard perception. As OJ put it, I am theoretically a safe driver.

The question I got wrong: there's a blue circular sign on which "30" is written in white. There is a red line diagonally through it (I'd put a graphic up but I'm on Vodafone wireless right now and have trouble with image quality on it). What does this sign mean?

Your options are:
- A: minimum speed limit
- B: maximum speed limit
- C: end of minimum speed limit
- D: end of maximum speed limit

I've still got no idea, I'll look it up later and supply the answer along with that advert scan I promised earlier.

Music recommendations this week: new singles from Editors and Secret Machines. Buy them for the B sides (oft-overlooked, trust me, they're the whole point to buying singles), particularly Editors' "The Diplomat" and Secret Machines' "Another Minute Standing Still". Also note the release of Guillemots' single "We're Here", Guillemots being one of the bands I tipped for the big time in 2006.

And elsewhere on the web today:

- Ken Livingstone in 100%-correct-about-something shock: "When British troops are putting their lives on the line for American foreign policy, it would be quite nice if they paid the congestion charge," quoth he. Couldn't agree more. Possibly should've stopped short of the "snivelling little crook" comment though regarding the US ambassador.
- Life On Mars is being rewritten and remade for US television, no doubt on the basis this was how Starsky and Hutch should have been done.
- And Google's official blog found itself deleted last night. By Google. Employee Jason Goldman explains:

We've determined the cause of [the] outage. The blog was mistakenly deleted by us (d'oh!) which allowed the blog address to be temporarily claimed by another user. This was not a hack, and nobody guessed our password. Our bad.