There are certain things that you would not consider as an ability, had it not been for the circumstances in which these things manifested themselves. The ability to swear may not be particularly bad ...
For the second day running I come across articles from the press that just cannot be lost for the posterity – they need to be preserved and cherished. And before you say anything, I (as all of u...
It seems that I keep remembering the pearls from George Mikes’s How to be an Alien. But how can I avoid doing so, when I get to see the screen shot of a story on CNN’s website? The story i...
Last week I was contacted by a reader who has been living in Vienna, Austria, for a number of years and is “loving it”. Not that I didn’t take him seriously, but, having just read a ...
Wednesday was my mother’s birthday, and it was a rather pleasant coincidence that Zenith, a Russian football team from St Petersburg, should be playing in the UEFA Cup Final on the day. In the m...
A Friday afternoon can bring up many lovely memories. One of my present colleagues remembered how his father once opened a bottle of wine only to find a mouse in it. A visitor to my other blog recalle...
Earlier this week I read on TechCrunch‘s article about the Encyclopaedia Britannica giving out free one-year subscriptions to web publishers. Michael Arrington writes, “As an outsider, Bri...
Wednesday 9:01 am 4/23/08 Originally uploaded by robinhamman Many hours after I wrote a post about unsuccessful attempts to make St George’s Day a public holiday I came across this picture in Ro...
In the space of the last three years it’s been twice that I came across the appeal to vote to make St George’s Day a public holiday. The campaign is still going on, and this day is still n...
Well, fear not, it’s not me. Mobile blogging still has got its limits for me: I definitely wouldn’t attempt it on the top of my local oak. Had I done, however, I’d be in exactly the ...