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I thought long and hard before writing this post – not least because it does sometimes seem that the only time I ever write in this most personal of blogs is to either a) make a complaint, b) spout about some business thing or other we might be setting up or, c) something technical or [...]

Here’s another of those phrases that you wish you’d coined, but I got in first with an online blog post about it so therefore, I now own it…
“Rarer than the JML Snuggie”
Who would have thought it, really. I mean really. Its a blanket. With arms. Out of all the products I have ever seen (and [...]

Time for a wholesale change of this page now, after it became apparent that Google agreed with my outrageous claim to be “Lord of the Internet” back in June 2009, when I wrote this very page following a night of high drama in the mean streets of Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
Quite simply, if you go [...]

After a few months of experimentation with Micro-Blogging – specifically the microblogging website, Twitter, I still havne’t reached any definitive conclusions regarding the usefulness of the medium. I have, however, reached one very important conclusion: Twitter is Over Capacity.
It seems as though Twitter has become something of a victim of it’s own success: so many [...]

My friend came up to Edinburgh from London on the train the other day without having the sell a kidney to buy the ticket. In this article I will explain how you can too – despite the ludicrously expensive and weird train ticketing system we have in effect in the UK!
The simple answer to this [...]

Today, as sometimes happens, I ended up on a weird and colourful affiliate website that has “thousands of pages” written by someone who’s name begins with the letter ‘z’.
This got me thinking, as always, about whether talking about having thousands of pages is somewhere we’re missing a trick.
I mean, we do have thousands of pages, [...]

A lot of my family and friends might have realised at some point in the past month or two that I’ve quit Facebook. Those who I speak to in person – i.e. my actual friends – will know my reasons why. Those of you who I haven’t spoken to, or the interested web visitor can [...]

A week has elapsed since the death of Michael Jackson and, now that the initial feelings of shock and horror have worn off, it seems a good time to pay some kind of tribute to one of the most interesting and gifted men of modern times.
Michael Jackson left our mortal world last Thursday after suffering [...]

I know what you’re going to think “Rob, you’re always hammering the BBC, I actually quite like them! Their coverage of Glastonbury is boss, for a start (sic)!” – so before we get in to this, I will come out and say that I enjoy much of the BBC’s coverage, to the point where I [...]

I’ve just put the finishing touches on a timetable for my weeks from this point forward after it has recently become apparent that my schedule is quite ludicrously busy. It doesn’t look any better when you get it all into a calendar: worse, if anything.
However, I had the period of 3-4pm on a Monday afternoon [...]