It may be the dreariest day of the year according to Cliff Arnall of Cardiff University, but we're putting a brave face on it here at Guardian Unlimited.
Apropos of this and this, Ian J Griffiths is penning net notes about robots. And Luke Harding has written a world dispatch on the Indian Ocean tsunami's destruction of much of Banda Aceh's surviving colonial heritage.
Guardian Unlimited Politics politics correspondent Matt Tempest is, as I type, writing about Michael Howard's moves to focus on immigration and asylum in his pre-campaign election campaign. And after yet another suicide bombing we're readying our coverage for the Iraqi elections on Sunday: we'll have an interactive guide, a Q&A and an audio report, and I'm preparing to blog about what Iraqi bloggers are saying in the run-up to the vote. As the court martial of three British soldiers accused of abusing Iraqi detainees continues, we'll also bring you the latest developments from the court in Germany.
SocietyGuardian.co.uk will be finding out about John Prescott's five year housing plan when it is unveiled in parliament at 3.30pm, and Mark Oliver is covering the Law Society's press conference on the government's anti-terror laws at 2pm.
