There used to be two things I was paranoid about when travelling, my passport and my air ticket. Now that air tickets are bits of paper or electrons and not gorgeous thick card with fare pay codes you could collect like a train spotter (Oh look I've got a K, oh a K is just a Y you can't change), I don't have to be paranoid about losing the ticket ( Read more... )

So, the veil is lifting the image in the crystal ball is sharpening and now I can reveal.

That the Super Secret Project is....


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For the past week or so the keyboard on my own silver 17" wide laptop has been dead, completely ( Read more... )

It was extremely interesting listening and from time to time watching to reactions to the Stern report on the radio and TV. It was like this long exhalation of breath from all these pundits and politicians. At last, they seemed to breathe, we can talk about it ( Read more... )

No this is nothing in the least bit salacious and there are no pictures of me on my knees, kindly pass on by ( Read more... )

The capped agreement we had with Scottish Power ran out in June and we made a new one, the rate having doubled in the meantime, which we were expecting but its capped again anyway ( Read more... )

We had the unfortunate experience of watching Casualty on BBC 1 on Saturday night. Yes it had become hackneyed and the thinly veiled attacks on government policies on the Health Service and they'd pretty much run out of actors with liverpool accents. Oh no, they hadn't they'd moved to Holby City instead, I forgot that ( Read more... )

Well the Super Secret Project trundles on. I still can't say what it is yet, but soon, very soon. But it will be worth it, honest.

And in anticipation of that I'm extending the fingers a little in waking this slumbering blog.
The original posting in the new journal is here

In an extremely occasional, if not plainly almost abandoned series, of reviews and things found interesting last night we went to the opening night of the Ludlow Festival and saw A Midsummer Night's Dream ( Read more... )

Well I've bitten the bullet and moved http://www.ijustheard.com to the same server as http://ectopia.us in the hope that it will cope better than my server at the load ( Read more... )