Have you thought about Conrad Black lately? I don't listen to CBC, which seem to have an interest in both creating him and then taking him apart as best it could, so I don't know about these thnigs but I was quite interested to read some of his thoughts about his appeal sent via email from what …

I still have my lps. Somewhere I have a box of 45s and in there I know I have a few marked "promotional - not for resale." I expect half the people who ever worked for college radio do, too. My greatest regret in life is actualy that I did not lift the Toto promotional lp that contained band …

Nothing like waking up real late like yesterday. I don't think I've really woken up since Friday. If it wasn't for the actual effect of getting the brain going by doing a little writing, I would have dropped this blogging some time ago. I deleted around 215 spam comments so far today and …

How do you know that Web 2.0 is past, long gone and uninteresting? Reading yet another article about how the law needs to be changed to allow people to do things that no one wants to do anymore:  •  “Earlier this month, some fans of the NBC television programs American Gladiators and Medium found …

I mean it. It didn't get above 10C yesterday. A month ago I was getting  •  sunburns. This week I was getting mold. That is the problem with spring, if such  •  gift horses can be looked in the mouth: it's inconsistent. I want 19C to 22C, a  •  slight breeze that dies away around 2:45 in the …

May two-fer. That is the level to which the legacy of England's fourth best  •  Queen has been relegated. Drunks at the cabin. I know one. He's there already.  •  While I prepare to go to my day's labour. It's going to rain all weekend, too.  •  No gardening for me and less fishing for the man in …

If you ever wonder who is watching the watchers and also who is watching the watchers watch, apparently it's the FBI and NPR:  •  “A multi-year investigation leads federal agents to search the Office of Special Counsel's building. Employees have alleged the agency was misused for political …

It is a wonderful thing to have an archive of your very own. A place to dip into the past and be reminded that just a few short years ago people seriously thought that blogging was going to replace journalism. Well, here we are in 2008 and the seeds sown may be bearing something unexpected - the …

I wanted to feel for Mr Horsley, the scandalous author barred from entry to the US this week as, frankly, scandalous authors are so unimportant that they should not register on any biometric or X-ray monitors at any airport. But little did I realize that he was also a big jerk:  •  “In interviews …