Starting a story with “I wanted to apply for a bank account” is hardly riveting stuff, but I realise that some of the dizzying star-quality of many of my other blogs is starting to give people vertigo – time to
2007-02-22 : Thankfully, these don’t go to eleven.
OK, so it's critical for every computer nerd to have access to bitchin' tunes, right ? Having music to thrash about to is a fundamental human necessity, and the ability to be able to crank it up to 11 every
2007-02-21 : Taste the bovine
Oooh look, a “wacky” photo! Seriously though, though I'd prefer a toe-curlingly strong coffee to a sickly hot chocolate anyway, the mental imagery of a bull being squeezed over marshmallows isn't doing anything to sell it to me. Having said
2007-02-20 : What prat thought that was a good idea?
Much in the UK press recently has been the government's discussion and embryonic pilot program for the “vehicle tracking and road pricing policy“, and the accompanying e-petition on the Number 10 Downing Street website. The concept is that in an
2007-02-20 : Don’t go gettin all jealous now…
Ingredients for a classy & memorable weekend: 1 loaf of bread, half a kilo of bacon, a 500g block of cheese, 2 litres of coffee, 6 hours of Monty Python DVDs. Oh yeah. Living the dream.
2007-02-14 : Hallmark Cynicism 101: Part 2 in a series of bitching
What is it with women and decorative foliage ? Have a huge selection of intensely pigmented pollen stalks sent to a girl and it becomes a Thing That's Talked About Favourably, however should you be more practically-minded and get a
2007-02-12 : Dip me in honey and feed me to the Led Zeppelin fans
Every now again I get a weekend that shouts “Aren't you glad you came here ?”, and this weekend was just such an example. After a fairly intense Friday night pub engagement at the Lockside Lounge to farewell Funkdancing Paul
2007-02-07 : Hey look, someone’s kicked Skippy’s arse right in!
I'll explain later. Life's yet again good: Friday night Malinda took Emzo, HC, Steve & myself to the exhibition at her work, Game On: a history of video games through inception to today. I'd gone along with the noblest of
2007-02-01 : Running over the same old ground
Whoever left me a voicemail this morning live from a Roger Waters gig, of the entire performance of him singing Wish You Were Here: Thankyou. I'd just been stuck for about 15 minutes on the Tube in the tunnel between
2007-01-31 : Brought to you by the letter R
Revenue: Am a bit shart off about a particularly unwelcomely big tax bill which arrived whilst I was off having fun in the snow. As with being caught for speeding, the first reaction is to blame everyone/thing else, but essentially