If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!There was a queue outside the Apple Store this morning. As the doors opened up, everyone surged inside and raced to the tills. I had assumed they were after Mac minis, but they went untouched as the iPod shuffles […]

Was it really Tuesday the last time I posted an entry on here? The week has absolutely flown. I’ve spent a lot of time working on stuff for renting out the flat. The whole of yesterday morning was gobbled up form-filling so I could get them in the post and back at the renting people […]

I’ve finished The Hippopotamus - for about the sixth or seventh time, I reckon, so I’m ready for next week’s Radio 4 recording and am back onto A Short History of Nearly Everything. It’s a fascinating read, and I’m burning through it as quite a rate, which when you consider I’m in the sections about […]

They eat dogs in Korea. Not because they have to, but because they want to. Cats, too. It all started during the Korean War when the locals were running so low on food they started to eat their own pets and, discovering they rather liked the taste of Daschund Kiev, they carried on when the […]

That was a strange evening. I met Will and Dave Green - he of NTK et al - in the pub that borders Liverpool Street. Wetherspoon’s. Ugh. Still, we stopped for only one drink and some strange MSG-infused snacks in a bag, and nattered to Spen as he sat there putting off the inevitable trip […]

Well, I’ve not got very far with my January task of going to watch the local ice hockey team and we’re already half way through the month. I have, however, used my time wisely. Last Saturday, it was Mark’s birthday. We all went for dinner in Maldon. Yesterday, another bit of Christmas. Tonight I made […]

Microsoft’s anti-spyware software is still in Beta, but having got a bit paranoid about such things lately, I installed it last night. I’m not so impressed by the results.
I knew I should have got a fairly clean bill of health because I’d run SpyBot last week, but I was still surprised by the result Microsoft […]

Reaction to news of the Mac mini has been amazing - and very encouraging. The BBC News site seems to have gone Apple mad these last two days, and there has been a Mac or Jobs-related story on the front page pretty much permanently since Tuesday. It’s not always been the same story, either - […]

It’s very easy to get addicted to exercise. You can become so fit that you push yourself to ever-greater extremes, one of which is death. People who are always out exercising generally carry a subliminal message on their sweatshirt: ‘rubbish relationship’.
Source: Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade
And so it was with some trepidation that […]

Not a very productive day. I’m on a deadline, so sat down to do some writing and decided to switch keyboards so that the better one is on my Linux machine, which I use for the majority of my writing. That meant the old PS/2 one had to go in the Windows machine.
It didn’t like […]