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Lunched with Neil, who I haven’t seen since Mardi Gras. It’s always fun, as we’ve known each other for years but rarely ever meet up, so there is always something new to chat about.
We first met when I was doing some guest-expert type stuff for BBC Three Counties, solving listeners computer problems on air. He [...]

I’ve certainly got value for money out of today. I was up early enough to go to the gym, but had letters to write about the people who should have been publishing my book but instead have gone into liquidation, and mortgage-moving things to arrange, so instead made tea, burnt toast and sat down at [...]

I’ve been testing peripherals all day and I am utterly exhausted. It’s surprising how much it takes it out of you, sitting and testing eight of the same thing over and over and over again.
I’m enjoying the writing, but that always comes in fits and starts in a group test, and after eight hours work [...]

Work up at a fairly decent time yesterday, as I did today, and was at Asda in time to fight the crowds for a fruit loaf for breakfast. Not a particularly pleasant experience, but preferable to going later. It also meant I had plenty of time to sit down while Paul went out to get [...]

It’s been a frustrating day. I worked on a single review from the moment I arrived until the time I left. It’s not a particularly complicated piece of kit, and it doesn’t take too much testing, but there was a lot of back and forth with the people who made it, and hanging around waiting [...]

It feels like it’s been a long day. It started early, as all Thursdays do, with the breakfast show interview. We had mostly lifestyle features lined up for this evening’s show, which don’t sit too happily in the middle of a news-focussed programme, so I learnt about the Newsblaster instead. It’s a computer journalist that [...]

The charity Plantlife wants everyone in Britain to vote on the flower that should represent their home county. For Essex, the front runner is apparently the Oxlip.
It’s a sea holly.
What a sea holly is, I don’t know.
The idea is that to commemorate the Queen’s golden jubilee year we should put them on stamps so you [...]

On the train home this evening, I sat next to a guy reading Personal Computer World and I couldn’t help watching him almost all the way back to Chelmsford. Fortunately he was very unobservant so I could keep flicking my eyes away from my book to see which page he was on, and as we [...]

I ache all over. Perhaps taking my minidisc player to the gym yesterday wasn’t such a good idea after all. It made me run too far - music always does that - and this morning I woke up feeling decidedly uncomfortable. Tired, too. I didn’t get to sleep until late, and bumped into Paul on [...]