Nothing very profound really. Just that sometimes because you can do something it doesn't necessarily follow you should do something. Of...

12.35pm  More aimless surfing. And it's still raining. It has the look of being on for the day. There's a big damp stain on the wall...

12:25pm Just checked the date for "Prince Charming" on Wikipedia, discovering No Doubt did a cover version of "Stand And Deli...

12:19pm  Fired up itunes. First track? Adam and the Ants "Prince Charming". Ridicule is nothing to be scared of. As relevant today...

12:16pm Surfed across to Facebook. Then looked out of the window again. It's still raining

12:13pm  Opened blinds and looked out of the window. Jesus it's grim here today. 

12:11pm  Spent the last couple of minutes editing that first post to remove the obvious spelling mistakes

12:09pm It seems that any event regardless of how trivial now demands a live text commentary. Let's go! 

And it's weekly update time. Be still my thumping heart. Nothing to report. Really. The job market has gone on it's Easter hiatus. N...

Nothing to report. Okay that's not entirely true. There is, but it's all so depressingly familiar and predictable that I can't b...

And here I am, back again. None the wiser, no further on. This coming weeks highlights include the first anniversary of being put on "g...

Anyway my job hunt takes me to distant climes this week, so I doubt I'll get a chance to update this over the next few days. On my retur...

After the events of this week, when I was treated like a participant in an episode of "The Chuckle Brothers", complete with a ...

With apologies to Roy Castle. So (predictably) my phone call didn't go well. But then I spied another job. With another agency. And, s...

Just a couple of things in passing. I was in HMV this week. I did my semi-regular Dark Side of the Moon price check. The 30th Anniversary ed...

Anyway the job I mentioned here is still being advertised. This despite the rather significant fact the closing date for applications was t...

A while ago I posted this   and posed the question, who, exactly, is Spotify aimed at? Just to give you a flavour (and so that you an avoid ...

that website you're about to spend thousands on, doesn't have a physical address. the album has the suffix "Part 2". they ...

the cover features "from one of producers of" the film gets four stars from Caravanning Monthly. this is the only review to featur...

Well my optimism lasted less than a day. I spotted a job yesterday. I rang the agency and had a long chat. It seemed to go well, and thought...

Yeah it's February. And it's a Monday. Meaning there's not only a new week to be stained with disappointment, but a whole new mo...

Broadband price comparison website says that you are being ripped off by your broadband provider, so you should come and look at their site ...

I would have posted this earlier but since today's announcement that the recession is over, I've been too busy dealing with calls, e...

Saw this about a "deluxe*" version of mp3 that's due to be launched. The report lists the format's benefits. "The ne...

Following the rant last week about crap recruitment agencies I thought it would be illuminating to let you see exactly what I (and other job...

Timing is, as they say, everything. I was going to stick a thing here about those "post your gold to us" advertisements. But in th...

The suspicions, raised in my last rant, have been confirmed. I know it's only 3 weeks into 2010 but already there's a contender for ...

Just a quick warning. There is a swear word immediately following this sentence. "Fuckers" Last weekend when I was scanning the jo...

So. My er stubbornness with Gigabyte technical support paid off. They replaced my motherboard with a slightly better one. More importantly ...

Not much to report. Things are much the same. I have registered for with a new agency though. I went to see them last week. I had the usual ...

turned out to be wrong. Well some of them anyway. Three years ago to the day, I posted this . And I was wrong about a couple things. Vista w...

I posted this back in 2006 According to this report it looks like my doubts about the "much vaunted" chip and pin devices are sl...

the Sharp 32DH500 32" TV.  Originally £599. And now it's £299. Sounds good! I'll take two! Except I won't. Why? When I loo...

I'm currently in negotiations with Gigabyte technical support.  My 18 month old motherboard - which has already been back once, has gone...

Amongst the many advertisements Sky are currently running is one extolling their green credentials. It has a sombre Ross Kemp imploring us t...

I bought different toothpaste this week. Some variety of Colgate. It claims that it's "infused" with cleaning crystals. "...

I can't summon up the enthusiasm do this. Not because there aren't things deserving of a good shoeing, but rather that my last post ...

I know I'd said I was going to post a list of my favourite tracks of the last 10 years, and put the boot into the rest, but this (admitt...

And so here they are. In no particular order. Wolfsheim "Casting Shadows" Dunno why like this so much. It's all the good bits ...