Unusually quiet for a public holiday - must be the bad weather today.

The bloke with the laptop sitting in my driver's seat is Ben. He's firing up Vag-Com so we can have a poke about with the electronic innards of the Golf.

Less than a month ago I had never even met Ben but, by sheer chance, managed to photograph him driving here in Sydney. Through the wonder of internet forums we've caught up with each other over a beer today and are now doing geeky car stuff.

Australia's #1 trash "current affairs" program, Today Tonight, has launched a rather patronising new site to support aged pensioners called Adopt-a-Pensioner.

Plenty of usernames are available, as you can see.