If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Well. There’s another month gone. A whole sixth of the year has already passed by, and so far I’ve only made significant progress on one of my three targets for the next twelve months - that’s the photos, which […]

From yesterday’s Evening Standard:
…every new train could be fitted with the mobile scales, replacing the existing method of working out if trains are overcrowded, which involves an occasional head-count and a complex formula.
Twice a year they try a head count on some trains around London, and then apply a special mathematical formula: PIXC= (total number […]

The Tehran Times (Iranian newspaper) has contributed to the current raft of speculation over what is (or isn’t) going on inside (and outside) or Iraq as it braces itself for possible attack. On its site today:
It seems that Saddam is clutching at every straw to survive. In his latest move to stay in power, Saddam […]

I’ve never really thought about email etiquette. Or at least not for many, many years. So when asked to do a slot on the Dr Pam show tonight on that very subject, it was time to do a bit of hunting around. It’s all very well knowing instinctively what to do, but talking about it […]

Dan Baum’s lengthy, but inciteful piece in Salon this week explains in depth why he believes any possible war in Iraq is not about oil. Or at least not in the interests of the American oil giants.
Quoting various industry sources, he explains how a ‘regime change’ in Iraq could see the country’s oil output rise […]

Midnight Weatherman got a letter through the door asking if he’d like to join the gym for free. He didn’t join, of course - his six-pack attests to the fact he’s already a member somewhere else - but it explains why the place is becoming so unbearably crowded.
The car park was almost full and the […]

Kristin writes the funniest things on her site.
Snatti the cat had a little runny accident on my laptop last night. After grossing out, I went to fetch some disinfectant and such. But no matter how much I used or how hard I rubbed, I could not get the smell of the cat’s bum off my […]

Wednesday 16 January 1991
Britain is at war. It is not called war, though; it is a ‘crisis’. Most of the world is involved and the aim is to force Saddam Hussein and Iraq out of Kuwait, which they invaded five months and 12 days ago. We are expecting terrorist action, so everywhere is heavily guarded. […]

Bumped into the Midnight Weatherman on Chelmsford station, so we travelled in together, gossiped together and got delayed together. The joys of public transport.
He’d been back to ITN a couple of weeks ago to pick up some tapes or a machine or something, and been into the old LBC studios, which are apparently perfectly preserved […]

A fairly generous lie in yesterday morning preceeded a fairly useful day. I steadily worked my way through an enormous basket full of washing while reviewing software, wrote an article and emailed it to myself at work. Let’s hope it shows up in my inbox tomorrow morning or it will all have been in vein.
Soaked […]