You may have seen the article where MOD researchers are getting the press hyped up about an invisible tank. It seems a bit late in the day to try lending some degree of credibility to James Bond's Die Another Day, especially as Daniel Craig has so successfully brought it all back to espionage, chases and cold brutal death in grimy stairwells (like all good Cold War stuff should be).

You may be interested to know that the British Army experimented with this back in WW2 - by placing a bank of lightbulbs on the side of a tank and varying the brightness, a tank could match the light intensity of background sky. So instead of being sillhouettted on the top of a hill (making an excellent target), it did a good job of blending in if you were a distance away and squinted a bit.

This new development seems like a bit of an extreme measure to try and stop trigger-happy Americans bombing our vehicles, but perhaps they've run out of other ideas.

Incidentally, having thought my job has not been so great recently, I've come across an advert for this book. Now that's on my reading list (especially as I finished the biography of Aleister Crowley just in time for Halloween. How apt).

Maestro! Time for some Music Not to Relax To, I think. Depeche Mode and Clean.