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In response to my recent Facebook message from Mr J. Davis of Adelaide, South Australia:

I’d like to suggest that there’s more than one form of victory available.

Yep.

Oh dear, it’s another taxi anecdote.
Got a cab home from work last night (the closer to the next morning it gets, the less inclined I am to stand about waiting for buses), and I wave this clown over right?  As the turn of phrase goes, I say “Hi mate, can ya take us over to [...]

OK so I just got a text from my mobile network (name removed in case anyone takes umbrage):
Hello from XXXXXX. Just to let you know we have made some improvements to our network in your area.  So, you should now get even better coverage from XXXXXX.
What interests me is the phrase “in your area”.  It’s [...]

I know that sitting around wishing for vast amounts of cash to appear in one’s bank account is a fairly silly thing to be doing, however wouldn’t it be nice to be able to convince once of these guys to hand over 0.1% of their take-home pay?
The chief prompter of this vein of thought is, [...]

As reported in The Sunday Telegraph (admittedly it was a fortnight ago, but blog posts don’t just fall out of the sky you know) the New South Wales Office of Liquor and Gaming has drawn up some new intoxication guidelines.  I suspect “guidelines” is probably the wrong word to be using in this instance…  maybe [...]

This morning whilst preparing to go to work (obviously, about 30 minutes later than I should have been) there was a knock at the door.  I bounded up the stairs, muttering swearwords about who would be disturbing my preparations, and was greeted upon opening the door by none other than a Royal Mail delivery man.  [...]

Yesterday was the UK release of the new 3G iPhone.  This, on the O2 website:

Now the thing is, for quite a while now O2 have been taking pre-registrations of interest from people wanting an iPhone.  I understand there’s all kinds of issues that could arise from availability of stock from Apple, and so on, but [...]

The multi-million pound musical spectacular that is Lord of the Rings (the musical) leaves London on July 19th (one review hinted that it might be going to New Zealand at one point - the words “coal” and “Newcastle” leap swiftly to mind), and when it became apparent that I could score a ticket-and-dinner deal for [...]

The other day I was having one of those existential crises that rears its ugly head from time to time - it was my 32nd birthday on the 28th of June, and my life at the minute consists primarily of mucking about and having a good time.  Society insinuates this millstone-like character on the age [...]

Well done by the way to thelondonpaper on Friday for their incredibly sensitive and well-executed false front-cover advertising feature.  On the same day that the actual lead news story is about 2 French biochemistry students being stabbed over 200 times in their South London flat, the advertising feature was for the new series of Dexter [...]