If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!It’s remarkable I actually arrived at work on time today. After last night’s late phone calls and emailing my mind was so busy with things that I didn’t actually get to sleep until almost two this morning. Even so, […]

It’s so late. Elaine called at 10.20 and now it’s gone midnight. We’ve just finished talking. That’s what comes of not being in touch from New Year to late October - too much to catch up on. As soon as she called, the TV seemed to go into shouty mode and as it was in […]

More fantastic weather. Isn’t this supposed to be the start of winter? Not that I’m complaining, of course… Woke up just before nine, with the benefit of the extra hour in bed we all got from the clocks goind back and read over what I did for the book yesterday. It looked OK, but then […]

The clocks go back tonight, so it was a pleasant surprise to wake up to brilliant sunshine. I stood my clockwork radio on the windowsill and the sun was bright enough to keep it going on solar power until mid-afternoon.
It’s amazing how much more motivated you can feel when it’s sunny. I formatted my hard […]

I slept through my very loud alarm for an hour and a half. I think all the excitement of yesterday must have worn me out. I was late for work, of course, but ended up working lunch and late, which made up for it. Gordon (Thorn, ex-labs) popped in with some surprising facial hair […]

I woke up on the first of my nine alarms, which was a result, and was out of bed before the second one went off, so the day got off to a good, if dark and groggy 5.30 start. The train ran to time (and was surprisingly friendly - everyone seems to know everyone else […]

I made a good stab at the Dorling Kindersley book during lunch. Some of the facts I need to get are turning out ot be a bit elusive, but I reckon that what I got done today, and what I’ve already got worked out puts me about a third of the way through, so I’ve […]

All the guests for the show are booked and confirmed. It’s been a dead easy week, radio-wise - just like having your own PR company working for you. I sent them a little note of thanks and said we have so many people who want to come on that we’ll have to look at slotting […]

Guests for this week’s show are popping up all over the place. It’s going to be a Windows XP special, on account of the fact it launches on the same day, and Microsoft’s PR people have done a fantastic job of getting in touch with all the launch partners and telling them about the show. […]

Yesteday evening turned into an early morning, and after the Chinese, the video and driving Trevor and Jon back home I didn’t get to bed until half two. Normally this wouldn’t be a problem, but I was due at mum’s by half nine for breakfast.
I woke up to a cold wet morning and drove through […]