We just had a quick discussion about ludicrous names, precipitated largely by the news that the Socceroos have gotten through to the World Cup finals by beating Uruguay (as if there's anyone who knows an Australian, who hasn't heard yet!) – Paul the Dodgy Aussie's comment on the matter was: “I've already sung the national…

Bit of commotion down by the tube station tonight – tonight was Madonna's concert at Koko to commemorate her first ever performance, 75 years ago in that very venue. There were a fair few people gathered round, but it wasn't the fevered bustle of adoring fans so much as the laconic circulation of hopeful scalpers,…

A man goes to the zoo … When he got there, there was only a dog. … It was a shitzu.

In between pontificating on matters I don't have a particularly educated opinion on, I also like to occasionally spew forth the minutiae of my various adventures around the place. So without further ado, I present “My weekend in Belgium“. On October 28th I set forth for Brussels – my primary goal was to catch up…

I read this story a couple of weeks ago, which whilst mainly intended to be positive in tone, needless has me a little worried (excerpt follows). [BBC News UK Edition] Man arrested over July 7 attacks A 27-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the London bomb attacks of 7 July which killed 52…

Extend your sense of self-worth by owning more stuff ! Buy one of these (relevant to mad keen die hard obscenely loaded Star Trek fanatics only). I find it somewhat hard to believe that the brains behind this don't think that the die-hard trekkies (i.e. the only group this could possibly be targeted at) who…

I got this yesterday, and I just can't stop looking at it and giggling myself silly. Maybe it was the trauma of IB Maths as a teenager. People getting the email version of this will need to visit my site to see what it is, if you're that interested.

Sent a form off for my UK tax return the other week. It was the 3rd copy of the same form that I'd sent, so needless to say this has been dragging on a while now. In an effort to guarantee it didn't get lost (again) I sent it registered mail, at great expense to…

Surprisingly enough, the first day of Movember is the clean shaven one. I probably should've mentioned this before now, but the way it works (according to the MOnifesto on www.movember.org) is you begin the MOnth clean shaven (31st Oct), then over the course of the next 32 days you grow whatever you can on your…

I was just embarking on an explanation of Movember to a work colleague, and when confronted with the question “Have you ever heard of Movember?”, his response was: “No ? Is it some sort of festival where you wear mauve for the entire month ?” He and another workmate were developing the idea into some…