It's true, I've been watching Father Ted a lot lately… It's not exactly all advanced or subtle humour, but it's still got me giggling like mad, and it has my contemporaries rolling their eyes as they've all been through this back when it first came out (about 10 years ago) and it's just me who's…

Note to self: don't bother opening a bottle of sparkling red to share with housemate until said housemate has actually arrived home. It ends badly. Sadly, I didn't get to writing about my Stockholm or Falconry trips like I'd intended to, but on the upside, I did manage to cook up a load of Tom…

Speaking of wondrous geography, at the behest of Patrick, I have been having a bit of a go at the latest toy from those crazy boffins in the Google Labs, Google Earth. I can't say I've thought of a practical use for it, but it's quite a lot of fun ! It's pretty mind blowing…

OK, so let's talk about Live 8, before I completely forget what happened there. On Saturday I went in to Hyde Park with Paul, Em, and Em's brother Andrew, to be part of the crowd for possibly the biggest rock concert ever held. There's probably not that much point in going on about the goal…

I haven't really given this thing much attention of late… Ah well, you get that. A couple of days ago I got a call from one of my favourite social sub-class members, an IT Recruitment Consultant. A handful of them are very very good at what they do, thorough, and conscientious (Jill, if you're reading…

Well it's hard to know, as I haven't actually left the house yet, but it seems that London's gotten up, dusted itself off a bit, and gotten back to whatever it was doing as much as practical. In a sense, apart from the enormous “Whoa, what the hell was that” feeling, it's business as usual…

Hey there… some of you have probably heard about the explosions on the tube and london buses today by now. Just to reassure, I'm fine. At this stage details on what's going on are in disarray… Am not gonna be providing up-to-the-minute coverage; BBC and CNN are much better at that. But yeah, thanks for…

Quick update: just got home from Live8, and am extremely exhausted and about to go to bed, but I couldn't go on without sharing the fact that… I SAW PINK FLOYD, LIVE ! (It's not meant to be gloating – it's just good old fashioned excitement) Granted, we were about a mile from the stage,…

I know I shouldn't despair after a single interaction with a staff member from my bank, however when you join the dots it's all starting to look a bit grim. I wandered in today to change over the leftover Swedish currency I had in my wallet from the weekend. After establishing that I do in…

Incredible – since finishing up at work last week I've been absolutely flat out, and haven't had a chance to do all the things I'd promised myself I would do on my first week of “freedom”! One of the reasons for being so busy is that I picked up a couple of days of contracting….