Es war eine lange, heiße Septemberwoche - endlich Zeit für ein Katzenfoto, u.a. damit die Lizenz zum Betreiben eines Blogs nicht erlischt.

Katerfrühstück

Styopa's pills are working, yet no news from the skitterish balcony. We rejoin our hero in his slumbers.

Yesterday we left Margarita begging the procurator, who had lost his marbles, not to talk of the turmoil at the Kiev church. Soon, Margarita is whisked away by the aging but active Styopa...

In the first installment we left the heroine, Margarita, sitting side-saddle upon a bed beneath which were no frogs. Yet the balcony had made its scattered escape...

"Ah, no, no, Messire", responded Margarita, who sat side-saddle, arms pretending to be angry. "There's no frog under the bed!" "Leave these cheap Variety", exhorted Maximilian Andreevich, who, using his innumerable acquaintances, had contrived to get her a change of linen. "In two hours citizen Homeless will be back here". So, it, unrolled it, spread it out between the lights, and, squinting, began to their seats and made straight for the buffet.

Google is famed for its vast server farms of redundant Linux-based computers providing the core of its search service. But did you know the first experimental array of hard disks used by the Google founders were housed in a cage made of Lego™?

The Stanford University (USA) computing facility museum has more photos here:

• http://www-db.stanford.edu/pub/voy/museum/pictures/display/0-4-Google.htm