In an effort to make sense of my life I subscribed to Michael Hyatt’s blog, because it talks about “Working Smart – The alternative to working hard!” And goodness knows we all want an alternative to working hard. Now as it happens, Mr Hyatt stopped posting to his blog the minute I subscribed. Because, it [...]
I’ve reluctantly come to suspect there might be some concrete meaning behind the overblown language first employed by New Labour, and now growing like a rash/an epidemic/laughter/Sudoku across Britain. Sea change? Step change? What’s wrong with a plain old change, I wondered? But now (possibly beaten into submission) I think there might be a difference. [...]
When baby boomers get old they get sold all the same things that previous generations of old people got sold, but with really idiotic twists that only they would be impressed with. Today’s gem is the CliC reading glasses: Clumsy cases, flimsy folding glasses, or the “granny chain†we are all too familiar with, are [...]
In a neat coincidence after yesterday’s post on Alan Moore’s comics being turned into films, last night I heard him interviewed on Radio 4. The audio should still be there for a little bit – you can click on “Listen again”. It was very entertaining, particularly as this isn’t someone who isn’t primarily a meeja [...]
Though I find news from the Cannes film festival is almost entirely uninterrupted dross (“Venice Holidayin was today promoting her new film about impoverished farmers in depression-era USA. ‘I felt I really got to understand these poor, poor, people,’ she cooed, standing in a $6,000 gold-chiffon Frederique de Vide dress, ‘For example, my character is [...]
I was going to start a series, today, about the prime minister’s failure to listen. I was going to start with a quote from his 6 May speech, just after he had won his third term, about how he had learnt his lesson and was going to listen to the electorate. I was then going [...]
Sunshine, flowering trees, quiet roads, Sunday lunch at the Lord Stanley in Camden. Apparently the ceanothus loves London, too. Update 16 May: Thanks to gardener for correcting my spelling. Tags: london, lordstanley, camden, sunday
Lucky you! For today only I am publishing my own Sudoku puzzle. My good friend Pashmina has written about this Sudoku malarkey – which now means there are almost as many pieces written about it as there are Sudoku grids in circulation. She has also pointed out that Newsnight have done their own – with [...]
But not yet. Tonight a group of us trouped off to the Newspaper Awards 2005, and – would you believe it – we won another award. This, straight after our Webby award last week. In case you’re wondering, as I was, this not the one with the annual Piers Morgan/Jeremy Clarkson welterweight boxing championship. It’s [...]
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