If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I decided to go for short in the end. If I’m narked by my hair now, I’ll be even more off with it by the time it’s been on the page six months and still looks the same. So, [...]

What has happened today to make me so tired? I could easily have slept from lunch until the end of the day. Stayed awake, of course, and spent the afternoon writing reports ready for meetings on Friday.
Worked late - again - and stopped in at Tesco on the way home with an inexplicable craving for [...]

Scott, who writes his Baltic Blog from Tallin, has been researching the sinking of the Estonia, a luxury ship, off the coast of Sweden in 1994. 850 people died; only 137 were saved.
The official outcome of the investigation was that the tragedy was an accident - pure and simple. One man, though, 71 year old [...]

Long, long chat with Duncan on the messenger. We’ve not properly spoken in years, and now he’s in New York, so keyboard chats are the best we can manage. Truncated when he got called away, so I spent the time upgrading Movable Type to 2.51. Some useful extras hidden under the surface, but nothing radical. [...]

Friday - work, work, work. Lots done. Home to find an Amazon pack of four Bond DVDs. At

I am the number one hit when you search for Catford Dogs on Google. I know this because someone told me on the way to Walthamstow Stadium this evening.
It was Epson’s late late Christmas party in the restaurant several floors above the track, low enough down to make out the winners, yet high enough up [...]

82-year old Helen Thomas has been a journalist for 57 years and White House correspondent for much of that time. She has developed something of a reputation for asking the kind of questions much of the White House press corps would never dare.
At the beginning of January Ari Fleischer, Bush’s Press Secretary, gave a press [...]

Coming soon on wnbc.com… ‘live shots of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree from the TreeCam’. There’s nothing like forward planning…

Don’t just get your cat’s portrait painted - have it painted in the style of an old master. The Krapola and Drek site has to be seen to be believed, and even then you think it’s a sham. But it’s not.

Every day at four o’clock we go for tea. Every day at four-o-five we come back with a bag full of cups that is invariably emptied of its contents and either filled with junk or left on a desk until at some point someone puts it on their head for the comedy value. It’s shocking [...]