Bah and double bah

[simont]

I received email today telling me that Coeliac UK is discontinuing the electronic version of their list of safe foods. That's very annoying; I find it much more useful than the book version, partly because I can access it from anywhere I have an Internet connection without having to lug a book about, and mostly because I can grep it for a useful keyword without having to think hard about which of several plausible categories a given product might have been filed under. But apparently the service has been fraught with problems (none of which I've encountered), and so they're discontinuing it on the basis that it's more trouble than it's worth (to everyone but me).

I've mailed them back to express my disappointment and my strong support for their half-hearted intent to try to introduce a replacement service, but I'm not hopeful.

As if that wasn't annoying enough, the same email also linked to an update to the safe foods list in which it transpires that my favourite breakfast cereal EVER, which I used to eat as a special holiday treat when I was a child and have been gleefully stuffing my face with since February after discovering it was one of the few cereals I could still eat, has just been re-tested and turns out not to be gluten-free after all. Bah! And double bah since I'd just stocked up on the stuff. Anyone (well, anyone to whom I can conveniently deliver) want to take some large boxes of Crunchy Nut Corn Flakes off my hands?

I also just played a game of NetHack in which I was granted an early wish and was dead two turns later. This is clearly not my day.