Really looking forward to Armando Iannucci’s new show, Time Trumpet. Here’s an interview from The Independent, which is worth preserving: Armando Iannucci: Keeper of the satirical flame With I’m Alan Partridge and The Day Today, Armando Iannucci pioneered a brand…

The current situation in the Middle East is unbelievably depressing. Stuff like this from Melanie Phillips hardly makes one more sympathetic to the Israelis.

Hadn’t come across this before, but the children’s charity SOS Children’s Villages UK has produced a downloadable .zip of Wikipedia entries they think would be useful to children in terms of subject and quality, that people can distribute via CD.…

From the BBC: Users of the Yahoo and Microsoft instant messaging programs can now contact each other directly. The two firms have released software that ties the two networks into a huge community of 350 million users. The trial software…

So, England’s World Cup campaign has come to an end, through the usual medium, the penalty shoot out. A few things came out of the tournament for me: England were nowhere near as bad as their critics have made out…

Originally posted on Palimpsest: Well, I have now finished two books consecutively for the first time in ages, and at last my Palimplist is making some movement. I think I should thank Patrick McGrath for that. Port Mungo is every…

After the purchase of Writely giving them onine word processing, it appears that Google will shortly be offering a spreadsheet too. These, with Gmail and Calendar effectively provide a free to use Google Office suite. For home users with a…

I’ve had to have a bit of a review of my online life since I started my new job. I simply haven’t got the time that I used to for administering all the sites I have managed to become involved…

…has been given a bit of a face lift. Last week, Quentin and I finally bumped into each other in IM-land and between us upgraded to WordPress 2.02, installed a modified K2 theme, installed all the various plug-ins that make…

Un-Made-Up is a great little blog just started by the journalist and author William Shaw. It features true stories submitted by readers, all under 1,000 words long. Well worth a look.