Dear BBC: Your headline is attention-grabbing but not entirely accurate

BBC News front page main headline: UK economy comes to a standstill.

[Peers out of window]

Cars? Check. Buses? Check? DLR trains? Check. Twenty-Eight Days Later-like absence of life or economic activity? Not on present evidence.

There is a subtle difference between 'economy stops growing' and 'economy stops'.

Dissertation - Done!

9,993 / 10,000 (99.9%)

I am not going to go over the whole thing again just to see if I can squeeze in seven more words!

What I have done is to fire up the old and flaky laptop and check that the formatting works OK when viewed under Word for Windows, seeing as how it was written in Word for Mac OS X. It seems to do so fine, so I've updated the online submission, downloaded it to make sure that it is indeed the new version that has been uploaded, and that is the end of it.

Well, except that I have promised to turn it into an academic paper. But that can wait a few days.

A bad day for someone

Looking out the window, I noticed police tape across the access road running between the police station car part and the telephone exchange (both of which my flat overlooks). At first I wondered if something had happened in the access road, but then I saw that there was more tape over the far side of West India Dock Rd and that there was a lot of police activity. Wondering what was going on, I grabbed my camera bag and walked down to the end of my street, from where I have a view back along West India Dock Rd.

I'm clearly not news photographer material, because having seen the cause of all the activity, I decided that taking any pictures would be too morbid.

It's not exactly clear what happened, but evidently a motorbike had a pretty nasty smash right outside Limehouse police station. Given the location, it's tempting to assume that one of the vehicles involved might have been entering or leaving the car park, but I have no way of knowing. All I can say is that from what was left of the bike it must have been a pretty violent collision. No sign of the driver, although there was an ambulance in attendance. There were also about twenty cops, which is not surprising given that the accident took place literally on their doorstep and just next to a major road junction (needless to say, the whole area is now snarled up even worse than normal for 6pm on a Friday).

Of course, for someone (or their family), things are a lot worse than getting home late from work.