If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Last night’s pubbing turned out to be far more than just a quick drink to see Laura. We met in the Midas Touch on Golden Square and it seems half the industry was there, with T3, PCW, PC Pro, [...]

Following David’s advice, I download Ad Aware this morning and set it to work finding out what nasty little programmes had installed themselves on my hard drive without my knowledge. I was shocked to see how many things were tracking me. In all, 53 suspicious files or entries in my registry were found, and there [...]

From today’s Sydney Morning Herald:
Plastic bags designed for committing suicide but covered with warnings that misuse will cause death are to be manufactured in Brisbane and given away free of charge.
The Australian-designed suicide or “exit bag” will feature an elasticised opening to provide an airtight seal around a person’s neck and is expected to be [...]

Three worrying stories appeared in the news today.

From the Economist, enough children to fill a jumbo jet die of diarrhoea every four hours.
White parents gave birth to black twins through in-virto fertilisation this morning. A doctor speaking on the radio said that this was very rare - it had only ever happed three times before. [...]

I normally don’t do breakfast if I’m going to the gym in the morning, but I had an appointment with the fitness police at 11.15, so had toast while I checked my email.
Trevor, Paul and I were booked into our first Complete Physique class and when we arrived it looked like we were going to [...]

By mid-afternoon yesterday I was convinced today would be spent in bed. My right ear was sending shooting pains through my head and being the usual hypochondriac that I was I immadiately diagnosed myself the worst possible illness.
Of course, I should have known it wasn’t actually that serious when it disappeared as my mind was [...]

In the two years Gordon and I have been presenting The Lab, we must have interviewed hundreds of people. It’s not the famous guests that have impressed me most, though. Jonny Ball, Patrick Moore, Lucas Tyler - while it was great to talk to them if I was ranking the most inspirational guests it would [...]

The tube was particularly unpleasant. I pushed my way onto a packed carriage at Liverpool Street and ended up standing next to a man who had clearly wet himself. This would not have been so bad had a train not broken down at Tottenham Court Road and stalled us for ten minutes at Bank. As [...]

Today has been good. Lots of problems have been resolved, and even though I was very happy with my column by the time I’d finished it last night I found what would have made an even better subject this morning, so wrote a new one from scratch and have filed away yesterday’s less time-sensitive efforts [...]

Today looked like continuing from the nasty stop-off at the end of last week, but it didn’t. It improved before ten, and flowed fairly smoothly from there on in. I got my column done and am very happy with the result, sorted the invoices and shifted a whole load of pages. Even this week’s show [...]