There's been a couple of news stories running lately which I interpret of being of quite some concern. The first is the story about scientists growing an array of rat brain cells in a dish and teaching it to fly an F-22 fighter plane. Aside from the “Ooooooh, aaaaaaah !” factor, this news unsettled one…

Intriguingly, after my last post I got 6 or 7 emails from people saying “But didn't you have BACKUPS ?”… I think the obvious answer is that if I had backups I wouldn't be nearly as cranked off ! As it happens, there may be hope yet – I fired the lappy up and it…

Now there's a bit of an anticlimax – I WAS going to write about all the funky stuff that's been going on lately – new job, Motorhead gig last week, seeing The Producers on Wednesday night… But then something has to happen that just buggers the whole thing. I got up this morning to check…

Apols for the lack of blogtivity lately… gonna write something on the weekend. I started to write something yesterday but before I saved it I accidentally kicked the power cable under the desk and my screen went blank. Dammit. ANYWAY… First, this news story I pinched from Ange's site. Everyone loves a good celebrity cereal…

Had my last day at Reuters yesterday – was a bit weird… excited that I'll be starting my new job on Monday, but at the same time I'm gonna miss the 8th floor gang. I'm not going to miss the 1.5 hour commute to work on the bloody Jubilee line though. We popped out after…

It just occurred to me last night as I uploaded all my recent photos over a tediously slow dialup connection (grr ! Goddamn BT!) that I've been doing this website thing for a fair while now… Using my keen observational powers, I wandered into my Archive section and had a look, and yesterday was exactly…

One of the cool things about London is it's something of a transport hub – you can get to most places in Europe quite cheaply, so it seems silly not to avail oneself of the opportunity from time to time. On the weekend just gone, I (along with Annie and a friend of hers from…

I just got back from a really cool weekend in Milan, and will write plenty o' stuff about that later (once I've divested the camera of its photographic payload), however I thought I'd chronicle the next gripping instalment of the ADSL saga. The day following the debacle I got up and rang BT at 8:31,…

Is there no end in sight ? Yesterday when I got home I found that my broadband connection had dropped off, which was a bit weird, but anyway… I tried reconnecting, and it just wouldn't go. My attempt to call “customer service” resulted in a warning that waiting queues were about 45 minutes, and as…

It turns out my analogy of a musical feast was quite accurate, with tonight's performance admirably making up the cheese part of the meal. I turned up at the Hammersmith Apollo – the same venue I'd seen Billy Connolly at – to witness what would probably be a once-in-a-lifetime experience: a Europe gig. For those…