my name is mwd

Spam rarely makes me happy, but today I got one that made me realise we really were in the 21st century after all: an advert offering me a discount on my first flight into space!

How cool is that? Not that I can afford it, but it still seems relatively tangible that for the average house price in the UK I could go into space twice. Virgin Galactic appear to think they’ll be sending people up from 2009.