Category Archives: Blather

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Six weeks ago I lost the charger for a motorola mobile phone. I know exactly where it is: plugged into a wall at the hotel Zlatorog in Bohinj. What puzzles me is that I can get a replacement phone for … Continue reading → Continue reading →

may be this, or it may be realplayer’s licence agreement. So far as I can tell, it’s impossible to listen to the BBC at the moment without downloading RealPlayer One, which has the most obnoxious licence agreement I have ever … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Stephen Byers has been caught with a woman not his not wife by the News of the World. Perhaps her name will be changed to Buffy: as Faith once said in a rather different context, she boinked the undead. So … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Rupert keeps asking if he is the only person here. Not while I’m alive he isn’t. And I discovered this morning that of all the 2 billion sites that Google indexes, there is only one that comes top of the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’m never sure whether journalists more resemble prostitutes when dealing with editors or when talking to people who want to be in the newspapers. In the second case, we get to watch our clients in grip of degrading passions, yet … Continue reading → Continue reading →

someone has put one of my addresses in the “from” of a spam. The first I knew about it ws this morning, when there were ten bounce messages in my own incoming spam folder; apparently I have been selling life … Continue reading → Continue reading →