Fun page...

skyscraperpage.com. Many (searchable) scale drawings of tall buildings.

Useful for revealing things like how frickin' enormous the Crystal Palaces were.

[link: via comments in this thread at slashdot]

Exam time

I sat my first exam in about 9 years this morning, the first rung on the ladder of Chartered Insurance Institute qualifications. It went pretty well; I think I passed, but I'm far from certain. Results in a couple of weeks...