Tonight I’ll be boarding the train to Scotland for the three-day Edinburgh TV Festival. I’m staying up there after the festival and going across to west Scotland to visit friends and family in Glasgow and Inverary. Hoping also to catch some of the Edinburgh Arts/Fringe Festivals while I’m there. I’ll be working hard at the [...]

I’ve been hearing about this thing called podcasting for a while but I only checked it out recently. I’ve had my iPod since Christmas and I’ve been busy ripping my CDs (which is perfectly legitimate in the UK although I believe legally questionable under Australian law) and downloading new music (mostly buying off iTunes). My [...]

Summer is on the wane and it will soon be getting cooler. This is very sad but one good thing about it is that we’ll soon be moving into autumn fashions and we can relegate the whole Sienna Miller-inspired, ‘boho’ look. It makes me groan inwardly every time I see a 20-something girl wearing a [...]

The day after Live 8, I went to see Jamiroquai play at the BLive Festival in Clapham Common. I’d been there for a while, checking out the dance tents, and before I met up with Tash and her friend (now flatmate) Jenny for Jamiroquai. Tash and Jenny at Jamiroquai concert  It was an awesome gig! [...]

This past week has been pretty crazy at work, in particular Thursday and Friday as I have been editing our supplement on the circulation figures for consumer magazines, which are put out by the Audit Bureau of Circulations every six months. So the last few days I have had my head buried in reams of [...]

It’s been over a month since Live 8 but it feels like far longer. In a single week we had the euphoria of Live 8 and the Olympic win, followed by the tragedy of the 7 July bombings. Terrorism and the threat of terrorism – not to mention counter-terrorism and the threat of counter-terrorism as [...]

Proof that books can sometimes resurface and be journalled years later! I released this book on the back seat of a taxi in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia on Tuesday 30 September 2003. It was caught by an anonymous finder two years later! They left this journal entry: Journal entry 3 by AnonymousFinder(3,210/5) from n/a, [...]

According to ITV News (see last night’s report in The Evening Standard or today’s version in The Times for details) the innocent Brazilian man who was shot by police last month boarded the Tube normally. Also he was apparently wearing an ordinary denim jacket not a big bulky winter coat as previously claimed and was [...]

I haven’t been getting away from London as much as I would like this summer but this weekend we finally made it down to Brighton. It’s only an hour away from London by train so we went down on the Friday night after work. There was time before dinner to check into our hotel, the [...]

This story Warming hits ‘tipping point’ was the splash on The Guardian yesterday. Apparently a huge expanse of permafrost in western Siberia is melting, uncovering peat bog that will release billions of tonnes of methane into the atmosphere. Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide so this will dramatically and [...]