If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!It was raining so I very nearly didn’t go to the Creative party this evening. It stopped, though, so I wandered with Dylan to Goodge Street for drinks and chips and cheese on toast. Plans for a late-night gym […]

Hmmm…
If there’s one thing I hate, it’s people who steal my designs. I don’t mind so much if my site ‘inspires’ people, but downright theft I really dislike.
I was scrolling through my server logs this morning, clicking on links to any of the incoming domains I didn’t recognise when suddenly something very familiar popped up.
Isn’t […]

At Paul’s parents this evening, just after we had finished dinner, the conversation got on to antique technology by way of me mentioning the lovely wooden radio I inherited from my grandmother.
Mike said he still has a Philips Video 2000, a claim that was swiftly beaten by talk of an ancient (1972) Philips N1500 video […]

To the Old Court Theatre this evening to see Beautiful Thing with Trevor, Jon and Paul. The theatre had left four complimentary tickets at the box office to thank me for doing some promotion. It’s not Chelmsford’s most comfortable theatre by a long shot - it was a court once (as the name suggests, and […]

From this morning’s Metro:
“A nuclear attack by the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War would have wiped out a third of Britain’s population in a (sic) one night, according to official figures released yesterday. A secret report commissioned by the Ministry of Defence in 1954 forecast that, if war broke out with […]

A good fun show this evening, I think, and a good breakfast show interview this morning. To be honest, I was surprised I was up in time to sound like I was properly awake after not getting to bed until one this morning. Fortunately it was an easy subject, so there was time for some […]

The weather, which apparently won’t last, is fantastic this week. Mark and I spent lunchtime laying on the grass in Soho Square under the shade of the trees and the pigeons in their branches. It made me tired, and I almost fell asleep there in spite of the damp and the noise and the feet […]

Paul’s birthday, Shakespeare’s birthday, St George’s Day. None of these events was marked by a special graphic on Google’s opening page. Surely some mistake.
Anyhow. An early start so I could be in the office in good time. After working from home yesterday I rightly assumed there would be a lot of email waiting to be […]

If I thought the busy week was going to end at six on Friday I was mistaken. To be honest, I had an inkling I would have to work most of the weekend, but I had no idea how hard.
So, rewinding the clock… Saturday morning I went around to Mark’s. Ja was still in bed […]

Breathe out and… relax.
Fantastic. My group test is finished. The week is over. The office is shut.
I have a lot of work to do over the weekend, but at least that’s at home where I can make as many trips as I want to the kettle, munch Pringles all day long and listen to the […]