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Only a couple of days to go until the sweaty bloke in the red outfit attempts mass-scale home invasion. It occurred to me th'other day that I didn't get around to sending any Christmas cards this year… or indeed any Christmas emails ! It's unusually slack of me, because typically when I say I can't…
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…
At least it's a story from home that doesn't involve sharks: Man 'sledges' faulty car A man in Adelaide's northern suburbs has taken frustration with his car to the extreme in scenes reminiscent of an episode of the classic comedy Fawlty Towers. Police were called to an address at Salisbury Heights after reports of a…
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…