I’ve decided to try an experiment with my business model. This could result in my living in penury, or it could result in my having an ace time doing brilliant things and singing with glee at every opportunity. Here’s the idea: as well as carrying on as I do, working for money, I’m prepared to […]

How do you solve a problem like a laptop? Mine is dying a slow death. Slowly. I need to think of replacing it…

Hello all. Sometimes I seem to get obsessed with ideas for things I want to do, and I never actually get round to doing them. Time and money are the big things holding me back; mostly money, I think, because if I had it I wouldn’t spend all my time earning it (well, less of […]

I just sent the following email to the BBC Trust ([email protected]) in order to protest about the planned closure of 6Music. I didn’t include the Asian Network because it’s less relevant to me – I like Bobby Friction but don’t really listen to it. However, I’m sure there are many people out there who would […]

So here it is – the new site design. Created using WordPress and designed by the excellent Mario Prelorentsos, it’s been a little while coming but now it’s up and running. I’ll write a bit more about the site on this post in a while – it’s currently very late at night. There are more […]

I’ve just found a bit of a bug in the RedDot content management system (version 7.5, so it’s an old and cranky version) which some people might be looking for help with. When submitting new pages to workflow, my client was getting an error saying “Keyword required from category ”” – an empty, non-existant keyword […]

Here we are – a couple of days from the end of the first month’s extreme money saving. How’s it going? I’m up to 3% of my total, or thereabouts. At this rate I’ll hit £10,000 in about 3 years. That’s not quite what I was after, but I always knew the first month would […]

An update on extreme money saving, that is; not an extreme update. I think my plan is failing. £250 a month just isn’t enough if I include petrol, which takes about £30 a week; that’s about half my budget gone at a single stroke. That would probably be fine if I didn’t also then factor […]

Hello. Here is a new poem. It’s not a very good one. It is also, possibly, a little creepy. I don’t know. Dear Natalie Portman Dear Natalie Portman I’d like to invite you to my house. I would make you a cup of tea Nothing more Just a cup of tea. Maybe a slice of […]

Just a quick note; money-saving is going OK, not spent anything since Friday, which is good. Going to the cinema tonight which is less good. That’s it for spending for the week then, which is good. Brother borrowed money from me and hasn’t paid it back; not good. You know, swings and roundabouts. Anyway, there’s […]