This is the picture we asked you to caption in issue 28. It was taken at the Wessex Innovation Network Technology Exchange hosted at the Oakfield Campus of the University of Bath in Swindon. Caption suggestions included:

"Most people felt that Microsoft's new 'ergonomic' mouse left something to be desired" - from David Bradbury, Research Fellow at The OPAL Project, The Open University Library.

VERSION ONE: "You can never do too much to prevent a nasty virus attack!"

VERSION TWO: "A man of of previous grace and polish brought down by the Code Red worm". - from a previous winner, Jonathan Orford, Roehampton, University of Surrey.

"Yes, I'm the new UKOLN Events Manager - won't we have fun at next year's Web Manager's Conference..." from Marie-Laure Bouchet, Library & Information Services, Nottingham Trent University.

"Despite the brave face, the hatter's intensive computations had revealed skull-crushing implosion as a potential hazard for the would-be wearer - back to the drawing board!!" - From Adam Coulson, PricewaterhouseCoopers

"Lorcan regretted not reading the small print in the specification of his new job at OCLC." - from John Kirriemuir, Ceangal, Glasgow.

"Behind me, you can see how foolish these old-fashioned computers look! The wearable computer is the future. What you can't see is the CPU discreetly concealed in my everyday headgear, capable of transmitting several colours to this fold-away display device ..." John MacColl, SELLIC Director, University of Edinburgh.

"This is a 3D model of the Potter plotter, CRM, CMS, Metadata generator wizzigig. See! It's simplicity itself and will solve all your document supply problems forever....." Jan Matheson, London.

"The intestines of Bert's WAP Phone were not a pretty sight! "

"Master Potter felt that this years high-tec Quidditch ball was not going to be a big success at Hogwarts!"

"Fred found that the 10 minute plug and play WAP phone kit was not all it was cracked up to be" - the above three from Marieke Napier, Information Officer at UKOLN, University of Bath.

The winner is: Jan Matheson, whose email domain suggests an address in East London. Two booktokens will be sent to you as soon as we have a geographic address for you. Congratulations.

No prizes for guessing the identity of this man. Entries for this caption competition (29) should reach us by no later than Friday 23rd of November 2001. Best caption wins a book token. Entries should be sent to ariadne@ukoln.ac.uk - please remember to put 'caption competition 29' in the subject line.

The editor's decision will be final, and the best of the entries will be published in the next edition of Ariadne (issue 30, December, 2001). Best of luck.

Ariadne continues to receive entries for earlier caption competitions (those in issues 7 and 8 being particular favourites). We are grateful for these (extremely late) entries, which are often very good, and continue to make us laugh. But unfortunately there are no prizes available for entries to these earlier competitions.