If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!It was all doom and gloom on the radio as I woke up, with the FBI warning the world that the Internet was facing the biggest threat since its inception from the ‘Code Red’ virus. Now usually I don’t […]

Gym-ed, then straight to work (train so full I couldn’t fully open my Guardian) to find some of the spreadsheets I really needed to use strangely missing off the server. Half way through the morning, the production team was complaining about missing and corrupted filed over there, too, at which point Systems were brought in […]

After last night’s late night there was little chance of us getting up early, and it was the heat that finally forced us out of bed. I set up my Linux box for Internet access while Paul read the papers. Rather annoyingly I still can’t work out how to get the Windows and Linux PCs […]

The idea was to get up early and go out. The weather this week has been fantastic and the forecasts for today put the temperatures up in the nineties. In the event, they were right, and the air was perfectly still, so it was stiflingly hot. I bought picnic stuff in Asda with Paul (why […]

I really couldn’t make it to the gym this morning. I tried - really I did - but it just didn’t happen. I don’t know how long I’d been awake before I really woke up but I think it was a loooong time. I finished my Prague notes on the train, and got to work […]

I really haven’t worked out these early morning trails in the breakfast show. I know what I should do. I should set my alarm at ten to seven and do things that will wake me up, but instead I set it for ten to seven and then sit on the settee for half an hour […]

I finally started writing up my Prague notes on the train this morning. The batteries on my PDA were running down and for some reason that made me think I really ought to get on with it. I got about half way through the first draft, so it was a good start. Not so good […]

It’s been a strange day today. I got in to the office early with the specific intention of getting some emails out for guests for this week’s show, but the network failure that had been the eventual cause of me leaving last night still had not been fixed, so we were without email or net […]

How can something as simple as buying soup be so complicated? Mondays means mushroom at Bagelmania, and its close enough to the office to run there and back if you’re in a hurry, which I was. I queued, ordered the soup and a spinach bagel, paid and went to get a spoon, only to find […]

This week is going to be a horrible week. The Hands On section should be ready for proofing, which is 43 pages to start with. Then there’s a monitor group test to edit, some all-day product meetings and Gordon is away because it’s his birthday so I’ll be doing the show on my own on […]