If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!T minus one. Tomorrow I leave. And so today I emptied my drawers (so to speak) and was shocked by the amount of rubbish I’ve accumulated over the last few years. 14 pads of sticky notes. Seven rulers. About [...]

Well, from having too little time to do the things I need to do, I now have too little to do to fill the time I have. The issue - my last one - is well ahead of schedule, and I’ve even been editing copy for the issue that will be worked on after I [...]

Wireless rocks. You can look things up while you’re watching the telly, plan your weekend and email your friends from bed or …errr… get distracted by it when you’re trying to write your novel.
Oh, I did try. Honestly I did. I lit a lotus stick, sat down in the sun with a huge mug of [...]

Look at me! I’m in bed. I’ve finally joined the wireless revolution, and not before time, and so here I am, snuggled under the duvet, clicking around online. Yes, I know there are far better things to do in bed, but this is still something of a novelty.
It was incredibly easy, although the instructions in [...]

118xxx … take your pic. I still can’t work out which is the cheapest of the 20 new directory enquiries sites. Even with this simple table from the BBC that sets it out for quick reference, or the Oftel directory enquiries site that explains in plain English who charges what and why.
Is it cheaper to [...]

The wheels are well and truly in motion. In the six years I’ve been at the mag, I’ve seen about 50 people leave, and signed the leaving papers of perhaps a quarter of them. Now mine have been signed, and I had my exit interview after lunch.
Exit interview sounds so terminal. Like a debriefing before [...]

I was so tempted to publish this…
Dear Sir/Madam