It’s not worth it!: “Artists which could save a man from getting dumped by his girl are Damian Rice, Robbie Williams, Joss Stone, Westlife, Usher and Elton John.”[…]

For perhaps the first time in my life, I feel that the phrase “political correctness gone mad” might be entirely justified.[…]

The Advent Calendar Of Comics: Dec 2[…]

Oh Crikey: The Ayingerbrau Challenge – worthy cultural event AND they’ve got behind the save the Fat Man petition, which is steaming ahead with 136 signatures to date. We are still waiting for a reply from Herr Mayor of Aying, largely bec[…]

Elfster: whether any of the people who I’ve involved in it would agree I don’t know, but I feel I must use this month’s Blog 7 to pimp for Elfster, an automated Secret Santa service. The site suggests it’s a classic old-school[…]

Food Vs Fun
This is what I went to for our work Christmas do. It reinforced my suspicions that food and fun do not mix. This is the first time I’ve been to one of these ‘dinner plus entertainment’ things, you see them advertised on […]

The Advent Calendar Of Comics: Dec 1[…]

In November 2004 Blog Seven was a blog about the dead[…]

The Long Game
Repentance – of the non-trivial – strikes me as a human rarity. Read a piece in the Guardian about Josef Mengele the other day, living out his days eating with a dwindling band of ex-pat sympathisers, grousing about the poor[…]

History Today
Wanting to ‘take the temperature’ of the discipline I picked up the latest issue of this worthy magazine. Wasn’t very impressed. Very dry, very British, rather too military. The best article by far was on conscientious[…]