Reading time: 2 mins Partially nicked from yesterday’s Independent. According to Michael Flocker’s The Hedonism Handbook there are 10 signs you’re in too deep: You no longer remember anyone’s phone number because they’re all in your mobile You e-mail people who are seated within 20ft of you You make itineraries for your holidays The idea of a full week…
Reading time: < 1 min Don’t you just love days like this? Spending hours in long meetings, trying to find a way to get more work done in few hours. How about shorter meetings! I’m also a bit stuck by the death of John Peel. I feel bad, and I know he influenced a lot of people but I have…
Reading time: < 1 min Looks like the American spelling bee is heading to the UK in the form (somewhat) of the BBC’s new show Hard Spell: “Britain’s best young speller step forward because SPELLING JUST GOT COMPELLING.” (emphasis mine). Good grief. To be hosted by Eamonn Holmes, the executive producer said “This will be like Pop Idol, but with…
Reading time: < 1 min It’s a wonder we can communicate at all these days. The propensity to just send an email, or a txt msg (sic) is killing the art of conversation. You could take my wife’s approach though. She likes to send txt msgs that are every so slightly misleading, forcing the other person to phone her up…
Reading time: < 1 min One advantage of the woeful delivery service that is Amazon, is that my birthday presents are still trickling in.. this evening I arrived home to some pressies from my sister-in-law and her kids: Ghostwritten by David Mitchell Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee Astonishing Splashes of Colour by Clare Morrall They’ll get added to the stack of…
Reading time: < 1 min I had thought of 23 different things to post here by 8.30am this morning. I’ve forgotten each one. Instead I’ll give you a transcript (a small snippet) of a discussion I’ve just had on IM (the names have been changed to protect the innocent – I’ve ALWAYS wanted to say that… hmmmm what ever happened…