Went for lunch with K yesterday at a pub in Belgravia. Nothing in particular happened there, but upon leaving the pub and walking around the corner we discovered blue & white “Police Line – Do Not Cross” tape. In hindsight we probably shouldn't have crossed it, but there were no police anywhere to be seen,…

I'm on a train to Stockholm, having just been allowed into the country wearing these ridiculous trousers. I'm going to Helen's wedding tomorrow. Just thought some of you might be interested. If you wanna get a wedding message to her, you've got about 10 hours to do it in. Fortuitously, at Gatwick I was able…

Apropos of nothing, back in the mid 1990's (before computers had been invented) I used to write to a lot of people. It was obvious that email was going to be my undoing. However back then it was the Old Fashioned method, involving envelopes, and stamps, and soforth. Like with emails and blog posts, it…

OK, so I'm so busy churning over whether to go on eBay and spend a couple of hundred quid on LiveEarth tickets (what could be my once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see Britain's Loudest Rock Group, Spinal Tap, perform), that I pretty well utterly failed to devote any useful amount of brain power to the following: I…

Greetings, eager young space cadets! It seems that Aaron was able to revive the hamster & get it running around in its cage again, and thus restore the miracle of www.jasonbstanding.com to the world once more. “What in the hell have you been playing at?”, I hear you ask (that could be The Voices though:…

300 seems like a silly title for a film, but then I guess 2001 and Se7en were both pretty popular… Acting on a suggestion from Chris, a band of like-minded intellectuals went to the BFI Imax to see the new historical comic-book action romp, 300. Based on subsequent discussion in the media and among the…

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh! Major bout of diary constipation there – in a nutshell, we've been working like maniacs getting everything ready for end-of-financial-year. I actually got invited to the finance dept's end-of-year mparty on Friday night, but the idea of going to a party to celebrate the ringing in of a new fiscal year seemed ever so…

A few weeks ago, my erudite colleague Paul suggested that playing indoor cricket might be fun, and so after much back and forth and an incredible amount of management prowess, he managed to shore up a team, and get us entered and registered in the competition. I was unable to play on the first week,…