Well, at 4:30 this morning the love of my life went off to Italy, having parted with an arm and a leg to fly Alitalia, who have the rare distinction of being the worst airline in Europe with among the …
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From the friend whose apartment I nearly burnt down
Five years or so back I was staying with my friend George Machun, who is some sort sort of professor at San Francisco State. I managed the unique feat – remarkable even for someone as technologically asinine as me – …
Read MoreWitless compliance drivel comes to internet marketing
One thing you can rely on in the world. The minute something really gets going there will be a swarm of otherwise unemployable nitwits hired to make things more difficult. These people usually end up in a department called “compliance” …
Read MoreA revealing contrast in the “unnoticed” – but don’t these people really take the piss?
My paper this morning gave me not one, but several good laughs. First there was a picture of Her Majesty the Queen getting – “almost unnoticed” it said – on the train at King’s Cross to go to Sandringham. Unnoticed …
Read MoreTanishaBrewer is following me on Twitter – and other random thoughts
This has been a funny old day. Actually, a funny old month, mostly spent scrambling desperately to do all the things I’ve stupidly agreed to do. This is not a new state of affairs. I’m always agreeing to do more …
Read MoreFile with venom under “Who gives a shit” … and something for the holidays
I just read that a choreographer called Freidman, “fears X-factor winner Joe Elderberry’s debut single The Climb could lose the Christmas number 1 spot to the re-released Killing in the Name by Rage against the Machine. “It could happen,” he …
Read MoreWho’s screwing who now?
Readers may be astonished to know that in my fiery youth I came close to being a communist. One of my mentors was a wonderful man called Rufus Leven who had been on the Central Committee of the Communist Party …
Read MoreThe insanity of Twitter
So there’s this guy who’s “following 5130 people”. Oh, really? Has he invented the 52 hour day?
Read MoreLatest despatch from the wonderful world of Google – plus monkeys reveal why social networks are so popular
I feel like shit today after whizzing over from the Land of the Free, but I was amused when I read this phrase from David Naylor about Google’s new “real time search”: “I don’t think ‘clusterf**k’ is too strong a …
Read MoreIt’s official! I’m an ass … but I should be feeling a lot worse than I do
Two people in the last 24 hours have told me that whoever among my motley crew does the optimising has got me down as Drayton Bird Ass. Quite right too, and after my son Phil’s annual Christmas Party last night …
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