So I've come in to work this morning and thought to myself “I know, I'll go to kickboxing class tonight – that'll be good !”, and brought in all the gear. There I am, happily tapping away at my keyboard, looking forward to an intense workout at the end of the day, when I get…

Being the conscientious industry-news follower that I am, I've seen plenty of stories about how spam (or direct email marketing, as spammers call it) threatens to make email as we know it unusable. It sounds feasible, but then the threat's been looming for years now and we've found plenty of ways of dealing with it….

Honestly, you have to love London. On Saturday – essentially a year to the day after the Live8 concert and the scene of Pink Floyd's first public reunion in 25 years – the first day of the Hyde Park Calling Festival was underway. Far less philanthropic in sentiment, and with only a fraction of the…

Nearly forgot – upon arriving home I discovered that my uber cool housemates Emzo & Malinda had organised me a way awesome birthday cake as well! And what flavour was it ? F*ckin' BLUE !! Top work ladies !

Fine food, flavoursome wines, exquisite company, jazz, whisky and taxidermy – all were elements of my 30th birthday feast, and each one critical! Except perhaps the taxidermy. In the evening summer sun on Wednesday night I strolled leisurely from the office along Buckingham Palace Road and fended off the culinary wiles of the Cornish Pasty…

Wow, this is the oldest I've ever been. As the guests of our Irish colleagues, my workmate Paul & I spent the evening in the hotel bar of the Rubens Hotel – a place I highly recommend visiting if you ever have the time, inclination & budget. Now it's not often I wax lyrical about…

Somehow it seems that all's right in the world when I know that from the bus stop outside my work I can catch buses to Strood, Hoo, Cuxton, the Isle of Grain, and my personal favourite, Snodland. Backing up this theory, there was a story on Ananova today where a roofer in Germany was mistaken…

Always a privelege to buy 4 bottles of whisky on a weekend, even if you give some away as presents. In the process of trying to source a bottle of GlenGoyne however I stumbled across The Vintage House – possibly the largest single assembly of whisky I've ever been in the presence of ! Whilst…

You'd almost get the impression I was having a good time at the minute, wouldn't you ? (Before I get too far into this, it looks as if my site's broken at the moment if you try to get into it via www.jasonbstanding.com – one of the hamsters exploded and things aren't quite running as…

Bit of morris dancing in front of Westminster Abbey… A spot of Tai Chi Chu'an… A trip up to Northampton for a relaxing summer pint or 5 with the structurally magnificent Amy… A housewarming party which cranked on til 3am… A late pub breakfast and a trip to Regent's Park Open Air Theatre to see…