Yesterday was the last London Marathon sponsored by Flora.  From 2010 onwards it's going to be sponsored by Virgin.

One of the first changes that they've made is to overhaul the ballot entry process, and instead of sending your entry in via mail in the months running up to the ballot in October, they are asking people to do it online over the next few days.  This is all good, and in the name of progress.  You'd expect them to have the site working though…

They knew it'd be busy, and to claim it's due to unprecedented demand is a bit daft - of course it's unprecedented, it's the first time it's been done this way!