The baby poll and naming contest have been taken down. 9 months is a long time on a blog and they had outlived their usefulness. Thank you to everyone who participated in both. The names came in handy (some for humour, some for consideration and some for just plain wonder). The results of the guessing competition were:

Boy/Early 28.7%
Boy/Late 22.2%
Girl/Early 35.2%
Girl/Late 13.9%

Which is kind of funny, given the first two were late girls. If Mrs M had her way there would be a fifth category: "I don't care what sex it is* I just want this thing out of me already". Have to remember that for next time. We've got a month to go and Mrs M has been warned that if this isn't a boy we're going back for one last try.

In other small stuff I've created a seperate blogroll for some of the HK blogs. It felt wrong leaving some of them stuck in the Asian blogs pile. Go read them all - they are quality offerings.

Now for the really bad news. My tax bill just arrived. In Hong Kong you pay your tax all as a lump sum and due to some fortituous timing I just missed the cut-off for last year. So now I have to pay for last year, this year and provisional tax for next year all in one hit. I'm tempted to put a Paypal button up and hoist a banner saying "Will blog for money". If it gets really bad we'll just sell the kids for some scientific experiments. And I've got a kidney in reasonable shape. Any offers?

* _{Like all women, she really only wants girls, girls and girls.}