Who The Doctor rings The Doctor . Yes really.

TV I Love BBC Test Cards . No really.

Still Working Hang in there everyone ... still busy working on future content ... I actually went out a few times this week which translat...

Travels with my Matsui I was actually nervous. My hand wasn't shaking, but I wasn't sweating a little bit. What was I afraid of?...

Archaeology The above was inspired, or course, by Google's Usenet archive , a history of the world and the Internet. I'm reminded...

Christmas Well got the dekkies from the loft, hung my preent box up. Posted my calender. I decorated it with a bit of glitter, football ...

Rings The first reviews are in and the general opinion at Fleet Street is extremely positive, expecially with the kids: "The Lord o...

New Life Congratulations to Anna and Jon who are expecting a baby. Yeah!

Rant I have a familiar rant, which I bore more people with than I should. It occured to me again tonight during a shopping trip to Costco...

Still constructing Sorry I'm down to one big post per week, but I'm still working on bits and bobs behind the scenes -- and the lo...

Commuter Life Having travelled home by taxi again tonight, I can attest that Seethru are correct about something yet again: "Does t...

Kids Scriptwriters looking for an ending to the inevitable bio-pic of Kofi Annan (starring Morgan Freeman) will breath a sigh of relief wi...

Opera I never seen Opera live, so I've often wondered how the words are translated. Now I know : "It was the final act of La Bo...

Journalism The Spectator surveys the British print media reaction to George Harrison's death: "Was this coverage excessive? A s...

Plog! One of the arts of writing a weblog is choosing an eyecatching title. The story of 'feeling listless' is a long and arduous...

Film Weekly, articles appear in newspapers and magazines grumbling that although a great number of films are made in Britain each year, pl...

Non-biography Writing this weblog can be exceedingly frustrating at times. I want to tell you about my life. I want to fill you in on al...

Blog! Ann Elizabeth made me laugh tonight. A proper laugh. A belly laugh. It seems she's been attracting the wrong sort of attenti...

Book Currently reading and heartily recommending 'The Victorian Internet' by Tom Standage , which is a history of the telegraph. ...