If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!First Fame Academy winner David Sneddon is quitting his career as a pop star to become a songwriter, less than a year after winning the talent contest… “He was never entirely comfortable with living the life of a pop […]

Round and round and round it goes. Life, that is. It doesn’t matter what you do or where you do it - if you get to a certain level in publishing, one thing is a cert: your photo on a column. And so today I had to pose like a prune for the picture for […]

Written in this morning’s Metro:
But [George W Bush] issued warnings to both Iran and Syria not to let terrorists cross into Iraq from their countries…
not written in this morning’s Metro:
…because if they did, America would have no excuse to attack Iran.

I’ll be the size of a house if these lunches continue. Ha Ha on Monday. Mash yesterday. The Dorchester today. Somewhere or other tomorrow. Another four lined up for next week. A few for the week after that… so far. I wonder if we could do meetings in gyms instead. There must be an opening […]

Oh, what a tit I am. I spent an hour on Saturday afternoon trying to buy a new phone and cursing when the web fell over three times and chucked me offline. Now I know it was all karma: some guardian shopping angel making sure I never made my purchase.
Why?
Erm… because rather embarassingly it turns […]

Five years ago today I became a homeowner for the first time. It was a Monday, and it was the first day of a long, long, five year lock-in on my mortgage.
I collected the keys from the estate agent, as tradition dictates, and then zizzed around in the car. I opened the door with a […]

I sometimes think I’m not cut out for this whole technology lark, and today my faith in that belief has swung wildly from one extreme to the other.
It started well enough. After copious downloads I got the new Windows machine sorted out. It’s still not as easy as the Linux install was, but it does […]

Hmmm… well that’s half a stone gone in a week and a half. Either that or my scales are somewhat wonky. That’s what comes of not snacking between meals. Vaguely made up for it last night by meeting up with Kathryn, Mark and Ems for dinner.
We met in Alphabet Bar, Mark and I almost an […]

Time to say goodbye to the Linux. It’s been my main OS for a year or two now, sitting happily on my fastest, best-equipped PC. Well, I say ‘happily’ but it’s been grumbling for the last few months. It fell out with the hard drive and the two refused to play together nicely each time […]

If the day you get your security pass marks the first day you’re really working for a company, then for me today was that day. I now have a smart red card to open all the doors I need to get through, and I no longer have to sweet-talk someone else into letting me in. […]