The blog

  • Past and future

    Past and future

    Working in Wapping today… as you walk from Tower Hill station to where I'm based you pass by the entrance to St Katherine's Dock, where there used to be an artificial stream and waterfall by an office building, Europe House. It was pretty phoney, but it still looked good and walking next to it was…


  • Taxing problem

    Taxing problem

    Trying to do my taxes – aaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrgggghh! I need to work out all my business-related expenditure in 2001-2002 (which of course I didn't record as I went along). Paniccccccccccccccccccccc!


  • Talking 'bout my eradication

    Talking 'bout my eradication

    Something occurs to me to wonder now that Pete Townshend is being questioned about internet child porn… When Gary Glitter was convicted, he was pretty much airbrushed out of music history. No radio station plays his records any more and frankly, fun though a Glitter track sometimes was at parties, that's not exactly a huge…


  • If adverts had to tell the truth…

    If adverts had to tell the truth…

    That's the latest theme on www.b3ta.com, where PhotoShop whizzes diddle with photos. Here's some crackers:


  • Gravity strikes

    Gravity strikes

    Something metal fell out of the ceiling a moment ago. Fortunately, no-one was seated below it. We have something not unlike moles in the office today, however instead of leaving small piles of dirt in a line across the carpet they are knocking out ceiling tiles, making electric drill and screwdriver noises, and dropping angle…


  • And… update

    And… update

    Lisa, bless her, has managed to get the Spitfire going. No life in the Rover though. Still, we're halfway there.


  • Picture perfect

    Picture perfect

    Success is pretty sweet when it comes after a run of near misses. For a while, we've been trying to get this live but have been dogged by a few techy glitches: www.royalmail.com/smilers All is well now :o) It's a pretty nifty new product that lets you put your own photo on postage stamps (sort…


  • All zones please

    All zones please

    I just added this journal to the London Bloggers' Tube Map under my local station. Dunno whether anything will come of it or not, but I thought, why not? No-one else in my area has. The map seems to be the work of the same guy who set up the make-you-own-HotOrNot site stuff. Not sure…


  • Hee hee hee…

    Hee hee hee…

    Kinda cruel, I know, but I just set this up: http://AmITheNextToryLeaderOrNot.cjb.net/ (It'll mean nothing to the Americans reading but Brits with an interest in politics might be amused.)