It's easy to feel like a fraud in this job ( Read more... )

I don't really use LJ any more. But nostalgia hit me quite hard recently, and so I went looking and reading about my past ( Read more... )

I'll be in the UK from the 25th February to the 2nd March.

Hopefully staying in London - possibly couchsurfing :)

Would be good to see a few / some / many of you for drinks, nibbles and other delights.

Tell me something, ask me something, shout at me, complain, tell me you're still alive. Anything.

Tell me where to reply if you just pass by. Anonymous replies on, IP logging off.

"Hookers lining up for their BJs"

1. Someone skimmed my card and stole 500 quid in Egypt. Fuckers. I'll get it back, luckily.

2. That US$700Bn bailout. They carefully calculated exactly how much liquidity might be needed, looking at a number of data points, thinking carefully about the repercussions, and calculating to the cent what they should offer:

"It's not based on any ( Read more... )

Damn them.. they start up the hadron* collider and suddenly Dubai is shaking!

6.1 earthquake in Southern Iran... quite a big one. BBC says no reports of casualties as yet.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7608267.stm

Yikes.

A boy growing up in Glasgow's Calton, for instance, can expect to live 28 years less than if he was born around eight miles away in Lenzie.

As some of you know, my parents met at school in Lenzie. The school Academy there is well known as excellent. Even over the last years, my grandparents have been getting notes through the door from desperate ( Read more... )

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2441464197077804024&hl=en

Just. Watch. And don't miss him stroking the horse testicles at 3 minutes in.

I promised to go to a wedding in Mauritius this October. No, not mine this time, either ( Read more... )