Blog! I feel you pain. The title says it all .... I hate trains, oh how I hate them. The journey time is one thing, but the fact that o...

Music This answers that question: John Leyland: I'm trying to find a song that contains lyrics that go something like "it's ...

History Many moons ago, in a sparky moment on 'Have I Got News For You', Ian Hislop suggested that there should be a version of To...

Life Another story for the interested. ' The Guardian ' Guide mini-book waxed lyrical today about 'My So-Called Life', a ...

Buffy Since I've got a cold and I'm in a self-indulgent mood: "Every set has its own sort of tenor. The thing about Firefly ....

That Day It’s the end of the school day and two teachers are discussing what’s been happening, and in particular one of their students who...

People I'm still afflicted with both a cold, and the inability to get to the end of the special features which accompany the extended ...

Work I handed my notice in today. The comparison with last time was stark. Last time I knew everyone, and it came as an absolute shock ...

Books I lost all of my grandparents at a very young age. I do remember them, but it's through the distant cloud of years. I shouldn...

Architecture A Momentary Vignette celebrates the work of Le Corbusier.

History Tired. Stretch. Barf. Sorry, but that’s my attempt at reactive poetry. I know it isn’t very good, but I was looking for a way t...

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Community For anyone who can see it, I've just found the user group I tried to start some time ago . The message board is a bit sparc...

TV New Yorker investigates a new phenomina -- forgotten TV pilots finally seeing the light of day , or rather the darkness of a night club...

Site News It seems Alexa have full indexed the site . The screenshot is from some time ago -- my logobar was going through a Jackson Poll...

Film Tom Yorke, do you know the secret of 'The Matrix'? A new spin on an urban myth ...

Design I'm looking for a new office chair. My old one finally bent after I lunged at it a few weeks ago and since then I've been ...

Night Liverpool City Centre last night felt like a very bleak place. I’d gone out late with a friend looking to have my eyes opened by th...

TV TV Cream looks at programmes for schools and colleges Watch! , to take one of the fondest-remembered examples, provided junior pupils ...

Travel The full text of Michael Palin's 'Sahara' is online ; although it was a cut above other travel shows on television it l...