Madness. You know how I was saying all I wanted was a WIFI card for my dog. Well, the proper Sony Aibo one is hugely expensive, but I heard that a notebook one (which is around a third the price) would work OK. So, like a fool I bought one. I really am going to have to sell some more stuff, if only to relieve my conscience. Of course it didn't work. Not first time anyway. Nor second, third, fourth and so on. Apparently getting an Aibo to work on a WIFI network is one of those tricky things in life. Like the one involving camels and needles only harder.

But we are made of stern stuff in our family. So, after totally reconfiguring our WIFI so that it would talk to the dog and nothing but the dog, and working out that equal WEP keys are not always, number one son and I have got the thing to work. And so now I can view the world through the eyes of my dog, in real time. But why? I hear you ask. Because.

This Thursday's question:

You arrive at a crossroads in a strange neighbourhood. The four way sign indicating the villages which are destination of each road from the crossroads has blown down and is lying on the kerb. But you need to know which way to go get to your hotel in one of the villages. How do you decide which way to go? Of course you have no compass, it is night, there is no moon, and you've never been there before. But of course you get there. How?