There will now be a brief interlude whilst I go on a short holiday.
Normal service will be resumed as soon as I get back and figure out what is normal.
And, if you are a burglar reading this, forget it: the microwave is broken and the video’s a Betamax.

There is a story in our local paper this week, about a chap who picked up a prostitute in town and then sexually abused her so roughly “she feared for her life”. The bloke was gaoled for four years. The prostitute - who cannot be named for legal reasons, apparently - said:
“… he treated [...]

This made me laugh out loud - it seems Google’s programmers have a sense of humour.
1. go to www.google.com
2. click on ‘maps’
3. click on ‘get directions’
4. type “New York” in the first box (the ‘from’ box)
5. type “London” in the second box (the ‘to’ box) (click on ‘Get directions’)
6.On the directions: scroll down [...]

Yesterday, In Trafalgar Square, I helped to set a new world record: along with 4000 other like-minded idiots, I sang Monty Python’s ‘Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life’, whilst banging two halves of coconut together. I met up with Spratters and Dr PM (who sadly didn’t make it in time to get any [...]

Mrs Masher went down to that London today, to get her hair done at some posh gaff where all the celebrities go.Apparently.
She went with her sister… who isn’t a celebrity.
They made a day of it and did some shopping and had a makeover and did whatever else it is that women like to do on [...]

I was in town today, just wandering around (following a blood donation session that had gone awry and had drawn to an early close), when I suddenly came over all peckish… esurient… eee, I were all ‘ungry like. Ahh, hungry! Yes!
So, I curtailed my peripatetic activities and went off in search of nourishment.
I found two [...]

I don’t actually hate salesmen… but I’ll openly admit they are not my most favourite of people. And, I suppose it’s also unfair to tar them all with the same brush: I know they are only trying to do their job and make a living, but I find the majority of them are gits. Of [...]

Well, that’s the long Bank Holiday weekend over. The problem with being self-unemployed, is that Bank Holidays don’t have the same attraction that they do to the working populace: it’s just another day off.
And as one of those that are helping to keep Gordon Brown’s “buoyant economy” afloat, Mrs Masher decided yesterday that we should [...]

This may be of interest to those of you out there, that own a Sony MP3 player. I think there are a few. I doubt it will be of interest to anyone else.
I recently built me a new pooter and I have slowly been adding all the programs that were on the old one. [...]

Over at Kitchentable, Clive posed the question of what he should call his MP3 player, as it isn’t made by Apple and is therefore not an iPod. I seem to remember asking a similar question in a post on my old site, last year.
Anyway, I suggested to Clive (and his readership) “Portable Electric Gramophone”, [...]

Warning: this post contains extreme nerdiness
Back in the early eighties, I built myself an atomic clock.
OK, not strictly true: I built a digital clock that was linked to a time signal generated by an atomic clock housed in the National Physics Laboratory in Teddington. This time signal was then broadcast from Rugby at a [...]