China's own pipes and drums

I'm not all that interested in the Olympics, but I'm up for any story about weird little logistical details like this one. Apparently if you're going to have serious international curling competitions, you have to have bagpipe music. So the NYT has the story of China's homegrown Olympic pipe and drum band.

An odd dedication

I've just read Light Chaser by Peter F. Hamilton and Gareth L. Powell. Decent book, but with one of the more amusing dedications I've ever come across:

To our families, decent people who through no fault of their own have to live in the same house as writers

I dunno, any spouses involved presumably made a deliberate choice about it? Unless there's something else I didn't know about writers?