Wallpaper I wanted to try out the new Blogger image hosting and thought I'd show you what my desktop wallpaper looks like this week. ...

Live 8 I'm still here by the way. Great finale really, with 'Hey Jude' having the desired effect. Just hope it does the job. ...

Books I've never read the New Adventures and so ... just joking. But I have discovered this post at Outpost Gallifrey which reveals t...

Live 8 I love that Pink Floyd were just as chilled and cerebral as we remember them being... ooh the finale ...

Live 8 'And now ladies and gentlemen, the penultimate act of the night. The Spice Girls!' Yeeah! 'What? The Who?' Ooooh ...

Live 8 I don't like Peter Kaye much either, but why would you turn away from 200,000 people singing Amerillo to interview George Micha...

Live 8 No Robbie, not all the crowd know the chorus to 'Feel' without prompting. Funny that. Now how about singing a song yourse...

Music The Wikipedia has an excellent discussion of ironic or lack of nature of Alanis Morissette song 'Ironic' : "Some of t...

Live 8 As always Suw makes a lot of sense ... hey look, it's Sting ...

Life Wasn't Joss Stone amazing? Entirely unphased by the massive and tired crowd she even went to the lengths of introducing us to th...

Life 8 No Ricky Gervaise. Telling 205,000 people you won't do the dance isn't going to work. Yes, you are their monkey.

Live 8 We finally get to see some of the Eden Project and World Music and they cut away to hear some more about Jeremy Clarkson's slip...

Live 8 Look, it's not that I've had a sense of humour bypass, and lord knows music is not be beyond satire or reproach, but which ...

Live 8 It might have been 2 o'clock in London, but at about 1:20 Bono managed the first nob gag of the day. Jo Whiley asked him about...

Film Woody Allen's in the country again filming his fall project 2006 (talk about forward planning). Someone at flickr has photos of ...

Music Forty-five minutes to go before Live 8 and I'm wierdly looking forward to it even though it'd probably be more fun watching...

Politics Make Poverty History .

Law When I was at university, at the dawn of the new age, when the internet was young, I was always frustrated by the number of US-based s...

Art and Photography Optical Illusions etc is an exploration of fantastic images, from pavement drawings which appear to be in real space,...

Life I'm feeling much better about things. I now have both a plan A and a plan B. Plan C would be good but let's not rush things...