Eric Idle has written a new musical based on Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It sounds thoroughly awesome (and it appears to have a very silly website), but the story doesn't make any mention of a UK run. To me that just seems a little weird, given that Monty Python is essentially a British…

I'm not sure how quite to segue into this discussion, so I'll go with my usual approach of just blundering into it unexpectedly instead. There's been some advertising on here lately for various steps forward in the world of shaving technology. The most ludicrous to me seems to be this new razor which has not…

OK, whinging about computers aside, there's been a fair bit of fun in my immediate vicinity of late. Last night Annie and I went to see a comedian by the name of Jimmy Carr down at the Hammersmith Apollo (dagnammit, I seem to spend half my life down there !)… I can't say his stuff…

There's been a couple of news stories running lately which I interpret of being of quite some concern. The first is the story about scientists growing an array of rat brain cells in a dish and teaching it to fly an F-22 fighter plane. Aside from the “Ooooooh, aaaaaaah !” factor, this news unsettled one…

Intriguingly, after my last post I got 6 or 7 emails from people saying “But didn't you have BACKUPS ?”… I think the obvious answer is that if I had backups I wouldn't be nearly as cranked off ! As it happens, there may be hope yet – I fired the lappy up and it…

Now there's a bit of an anticlimax – I WAS going to write about all the funky stuff that's been going on lately – new job, Motorhead gig last week, seeing The Producers on Wednesday night… But then something has to happen that just buggers the whole thing. I got up this morning to check…

Apols for the lack of blogtivity lately… gonna write something on the weekend. I started to write something yesterday but before I saved it I accidentally kicked the power cable under the desk and my screen went blank. Dammit. ANYWAY… First, this news story I pinched from Ange's site. Everyone loves a good celebrity cereal…

Had my last day at Reuters yesterday – was a bit weird… excited that I'll be starting my new job on Monday, but at the same time I'm gonna miss the 8th floor gang. I'm not going to miss the 1.5 hour commute to work on the bloody Jubilee line though. We popped out after…

It just occurred to me last night as I uploaded all my recent photos over a tediously slow dialup connection (grr ! Goddamn BT!) that I've been doing this website thing for a fair while now… Using my keen observational powers, I wandered into my Archive section and had a look, and yesterday was exactly…

One of the cool things about London is it's something of a transport hub – you can get to most places in Europe quite cheaply, so it seems silly not to avail oneself of the opportunity from time to time. On the weekend just gone, I (along with Annie and a friend of hers from…