Readers of an environmental bent might be interested in this article I co-wrote with my colleague Jon about green technology in India and China. Very interesting to research, and there was loads of stuff we had to leave out, but it gives a pretty good idea of the differences between the two countries.

We should be setting up Facebook and Twitter accounts for the magazine tomorrow, along with a group blog, if we can figure out a way to do it that the advertising monkeys don't recoil from. Worth joining if you're interested in cool tech (and excellent writing, obviously).

If anybody fancies reading something wot I wrote, I'm rather happy with the cover feature I wrote for our current issue. It's about the development of new camera technology for wildlife film-making, and you can find it here. It's got clever crows, two-foot-long woodlice, and a bloke running around with a camera on a crash helmet.

I didn't get the quote about hippos in, unfortunately. Turns out they were too scared to film them, even from a hundred metres away and behind a bush!

Ladies and gentlemen, I have just won the Centaur Communications Feature Writer of the Year award. This consists of a large glass brick with a centaur etched into the middle of it, a magnum of champagne, and the approval of my peers.

Unfortunately, I've been feeling like utter crap all day, so I skipped out of the awards ceremony before dinner, to let the Girls from the Bromsgrove Office squeal in an ever-higher pitch. I expect the bats are currently flocking around the Royal Lancaster Hotel, because by now, they're the only organisms capable of hearing them. The rest of Centaur will be lying prone in their seats, trickling blood from ruptured eardrums. But I will be fine, and fit to flit off to Bruges on Thursday for a lovely not-really-weekend in the land of Christmas markets, beer, chocolate and seafood. Baroque and roll!

Anyway, I am in fact rather chuffed, because they were some bloody good features. If anyone's interested, the entry was this feature on nuclear fusion, this one on wave and tidal energy, and this interview with a low-carbon energy research specialist.

So, yay! And how are we going to get through a litre and a half of champagne?