A Question for Readers
This blog got it’s name because it covers a diverse range of different subjects – I neither want to force myself to blog about one and only one subject, nor deal with the overhead of maintaining...
View ArticleA Bit of a Makeover
I’m part way through giving this blog a bit of a style makeover, as you have probably noticed. I’ve introduced “asides”, which are those short one-paragraph posts that don’t have any headers and...
View ArticleNew Blog Format
This blog has had a new front page format for a couple of weeks now, long enough that almost all the content on the front page is more recent than the revamp. What do regular readers think of it? Is …...
View ArticleWant to boost the economy? Ban all meetings!
The Guardian’s Marina Hyde thinks meetings should be banned for a month, as a way of improving productivity. I think she may be on to something here. But I wonder how much attitude towards meetings is...
View ArticleNew Look!
As you will probably have noticed, I’ve redesigned the front page of the site. Let me know what you think in the comments…
View ArticleA Wedding in Scotland
When my brother asked me to be best nan at his wedding, the biggest challenge aside from remembering not to lose the rings was deciding what to say in the best man’s speech. It had include some...
View ArticleFirst World Problems
Terrible lunchtime news in London, where a fire in Charlton savaged Sainsbury’s sandwich supplies in London. There were scenes of misery across the city. A Sainsbury’s shopper told News Shopper: “When...
View ArticleTony Cozier
Embed from Getty Images “And Greig is bowled, bowled by Holding for one”. For some reason that one line of commentary from the Tony Cozier, who died last week, has stuck in the mind. It’s from the...
View ArticleWhat is Criticism For?
Thiis comment left on Jeffro’s Space Gaming Blog resonated very strongly with me Being a good critic takes a lot of courage of a certain kind, I think. Perhaps this is why I don’t write a lot of...
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