Today is an important occasion for me: it’s 10 years since I went self-employed. I’m dead chuffed that somehow I’ve blundered through all these years, slightly anxious about the year ahead (two clients falling off, one affecting some readers of this as they’ll know, the other alas my most lucrative in terms of pay-per-work; though in happier news ( Read more... )

Hearty congratulations to j4 and addedentry, of course. Going to their evening wedding party was a Big Adventure for us, in that it was the first time we've dared go out with Louis in the evening (usually a restless, colicky sort of time, with much grizzling ( Read more... )

• 12:00 Sometimes a sprat really does help catch a mackerel. #
• 13:28 I see @stephenfry is to appear on the returned J Ross show. Will he be playing the Sachs-o-phone? #

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Like everyone else, I think Moo.com is great, and we've used them recently. But when I mailed to ask about sending them CMYK images (they only support webby formats such as JPG, GIF, PNG), I got this in the reply:

CMYK images are prone to errors so we do not recommend using these if possibleHm, odd - they must be the only printing firm on the ( Read more... )

• 11:11 Last week we invented breggs. It occurs to me that you can't make a bromelette without making breggs. #

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• 15:16 Here I go again. I've launched @clueaday to work through my back catalogue of crossword clues - and then I'll write more! #

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• 09:05 Hello New York! Oh, hang on... #

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News just in: parenthood cures hangovers! Or maybe it's sobriety (other than a small tot of champers) and an early night.

HAPPY NEW YEAR, READERS!

• 09:45 Have set up @oxfringe #
• 12:13 Thanks for the Oxfringe retweet @Jazza_UK! #

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• 09:08 Just finished @doctorow's Little Brother. Hugely enjoyable/disturbing geeky fun #

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