Well well, today we had our staff Christmas picnic. I'd have to say, it was a pretty fine time, if not a little… umm… RAINY ! What's that all about, eh ? A cold, overcast, rainy day in DECEMBER for god's sake !? Only a couple of years ago it was averaging about 37!! Very…

frobnicate /frob'ni-kayt/ (Possibly from frobnitz, and usually abbreviated to frob, but “frobnicate” is recognised as the official full form). To manipulate or adjust, to tweak. One frequently frobnicates bits or other 2-state devices. Thus: “Please frob the light switch” (that is, flip it), but also “Stop frobnicating that clasp; you'll break it”. One also sees…

Last night as I was leaving the office (at about 9pm !), I noticed that there was an unusually large number of little flying things in the air. I'm not sure what the deal is with insects – Alex Coombe might know – but there seems to be one night every so often where these…

Stage 2 of the tshirt purge happened tonight. I decided to aim for a target of 20 tshirts. I mean really, isn't that enough ?? I then put them into heaps of 'essential', 'would be good to keep if I can', and 'how the hell did this make it through round 1'. At the end…

Happy Birthday Morgan ! ! ! ! Only 67 sleeps to go til I go to Perth!

Ah well, another night out on the turps with Michael J Winfield, only this time I survived. Last night I went to see “ASO goes Lounge” at the Festival Theatre. Not quite sure what led to them mounting this concert exactly… I get the feeling it may have been something 'popular' to get some bums…

I wish to publicly acknowledge the efforts and contributions of my esteemed housemate, Mike James, for his latest contribution to my phrase vocabulary. For now, if someone is irritating you with something, you can invite them thusly: “You may append that item to your rectal inventory”. It's pure gold. Way to go Mike.

So began last night my bi-annual tshirt purge. I seem to 'attract' t-shirts. I don't know if it's just because of the number of Scout do's I get involved in, or what, but I've found it useful an necessary to instigate a cull every couple of years. The 2001 effort was the best in recent…

Futurama Season 4 DVDs arrived today, which led to an impromptu viewing here at the Goodwood Road Brühaus this evening, and all I can say is… DAMN! That show just gets better and better. A bit more sentimentality being displayed than usual, but the characters have really hit their rhythm now and the accuracy of…

I just cleaned the microwave at work. Nasty horrid little appliance it is… Anyway as I was scraping off the shrivelled caked-on remains of Tyson's stinky rice-substitute, I noticed that the “ceiling” of our microwave had a weird sci-fi looking dome to it, rather than a flat bit of metal. I guess it's so the…