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In response to my legions of demanding readers… The new job is going pretty well! I work in a team of about 10 people, all of whom are jolly friendly. Essentially the team pimps itself around the Council doing bits…

Yesterday was the Big Day Out for members of Palimpsest, the arts discussion site I help maintain. It was also my birthday, and what a great way to spend it. Whilst in the pub I discussed blogging for a short…

Neville Hobson writes: Three lessons about evangelism: Always consider another’s point of view – and listen to that point of view no matter how anxious you are to get across your own point of view Be passionate but consider how you…

Does anyone know how I can insert trackbacks to posts I am quoting or writing about whilst within BlogJet? At the moment I am having to edit posts while online to add them in, which kind of defeats the object…

Am working on a large list of links of pages I regularly visit. At the moment it is very incomplete, so have temporarily password protected it.

Really thoughtful article here from the BBCs Stephen Sackur on his return to the UK after 15 years of foreign jaunts. Until I was 18 years old, I had never met a black man or woman. Nor, knowingly at least,…

A friend mentioned today that she had visited The Bowes Museum in County Durham. Quickly googled it, and what an impressive building it is: The reason this cropped up? The Raphael painting The Madonna of the Pinks is currently on…

I have been away for a few days over the Easter weekend. Normal service will be resumed today, hopefully…

I’ve always wondered about this… UK professor concludes: cellphones don’t cause gas station fires Maybe MythBusters isn’t a solid enough scientific authority for Connecticut state senator Andreas Stillman, who wants to ban the use of cellphones when you’re filling up…