If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The flat is done. All but the oven, which was pretty much ruined by the guy who lived there before me. There was still food in the grill when I moved in and a nasty load or tar in […]

Um.
Achievements. Lots, actually. I took down the last of my pictures yesterday, and then did a buzz around B&Q this morning to pick up paint, rollers and filler. Things have moved on since last time I did any painting. They now have panther print, or zebra stripes on the rollers if you want. I was […]

Come on then, spammers. Do your worst.
Two simple changes, which I hope will make a big difference. First, in an attempt to stem the average of 2000 spams I get a day, I’ve put in two lines of protection on my email. Then, so I can unblock the commenting feature on this blog, I have […]

There’s a lot of banging going on downstairs. It’s the gas man fiddling with the fire. The whole downstairs reeked of gas when we came in this evening, which probably explains why I had a headache from hell at lunchtime.
He’s cut off and capped the pipe to the fire now, so we’re without heating in […]

Day three and the Apple Store is already looking a little bit jaded. The lovely clean floors have got dirty black rubber scuffs on them from shoppers’ shoes, and it’s crawling with… customers.
All the mystique has gone.
When it was empty and pristine, two days before opening, it was magnificent. Truly spectacular and really what they […]

From BBC News:
Sir Paul McCartney has been chosen to provide the half-time entertainment at this year’s Super Bowl game - the slot filled by Janet Jackson last year.
Organisers have promised there will be no repeat of her nipple-baring incident that sparked thousands of complaints on US TV’s most-watched broadcast.
In fairness, I’m not sure anyone would […]

Oh, I had so many things I needed to do yesterday, but instead I spent the whole morning and a good part of the afternoon designing this year’s Christmas cards. Not entirely a waste of time, them, and enjoyable nonetheless. I’ve dispatched one of each design for printing, and they should be back by Tuesday […]

So the car picked us up from the office far earlier than I thought it would, and we were at the hotel by half two. The set was still being built in the Titanic-like ballroom, and all the upstairs areas were knotted together in a nest of wires for the cameras, computers and mixing stuff.
So, […]

The London Apple Store is very cool. It’s a shame it was raining today, as it made the outside look very dowdy, but the inside is fantastic. The first thing you see is the trademark glass staircase, which goes up to the theatre on the first floor, and although they have the largest collection of […]

They’ve put up big gantries over Oxford Street with spotlights on top of each one. They’re supposed to be shining the Olympic rings onto the clouds, but you just get a load of random blobs, like some alien spacecraft is coming down to invade. All in all it’s very unconvincing.
Someone mentioned wrong kind of clouds, […]