This isn’t one of those “sorry for not blogging for a while, I’ll be back soon” posts but it is a distant relative.
I rather think that I must be coming down with a case of writers block; I just don’t seem to have anything I feel the need to write about at the moment. Thank [...]

Whilst perusing Delicious earlier today I came across a really interesting post Introverts and Extraverts : Can’t We Just Get Along which in turn led me to another post by the same author The Introverts Strike Back.
I agree with the author’s basic premise that an introvert cannot or at least is very unlikely to become and extravert and [...]

You tend to forget the effect that light pollution has on the night sky until you go somewhere with a complete absence of such pollution.
I stayed in a converted barn in deepest Dorset last week and saw some of the most amazing night skies I’ve ever seen.
In the city you see just the biggest stars [...]

Dear readers, customer and company representatives,
I am sick and tired of bad service. Not of bad products and goods but of the service that supports those products or is the product itself.
I am fed up with you seeing me as an annoyance, as something that costs you money to provide a service to and of [...]

From The Guardian:
Rising housing costs forced more than a million householders to use a credit card to pay their mortgage or rent over the past 12 months, a poll for the housing charity Shelter reveals today.
It says a growing number of young people are turning to expensive sources of credit to hang on to a [...]

A friend reminded me of this piece recently, so I thought I’d share it with those of you who have just found dh.org. I wrote this in 2004 after seeing Scum for the first time and it struck me how much simpler “prison rules” were than “corporate rules”. It is of course tongue in [...]