Today, 17th March, is of course Saint Patrick's Day, in commemoration of the (possibly Welsh) Christian who persuaded the Irish to convert, en masse, to Christianity. Of course, nowadays it's largely an excuse - and a good one at that - for Irish-themed partying worldwide.

We have some customers in town this week - we met up with some of them on Wednesday night for dinner, and they're having the big meeting this afternoon. On Wednesday, it was mentioned that one of two of the group feel their Irish roots strongly at this time of year and will be going to find their people to celebrate tonight. Today, the boss asked me to find some appropriately-themed clipart for the presentation this afternoon - said he could get the graphics gut in the office to do it, but he'd have to explain St. Patrick's Day first, which is fair enough - and I sent on some nice inoffensive shamrock pictures. The response from the boss? Clarified his intentions - he didn't want shamrocks, he wanted 'drunk leprechauns'...