The happiest of holidays to all my readers. Like many, I'm sure, I got many wonderful things yesterday, including the Complete Far Side, the collection of Far Side cartoons which is so exquisitely packaged it has to be seen to be believed, and more importantly touched. You feel a certain sort of reverence reading the book that I haven't felt since examining a book of log tables from the turn of the century.

However, I've found a far more fascinating source of amusement in the form of a DVD I bought my wife. The IT Crowd, a sitcom about the IT department in a company is fantastic. We've seen it before of course - it was broadcast earlier this year - but it's not the content of the episodes that is so great. It's the DVD menus and subtitles.