And … what do you know? With the first nasty cold spell in me being here for 278 days, I’ve eventually caught my first proper cold.
I say ‘proper’ because I remember that in September of last year, I had a tiny scratchy throat for one day, sneezed a couple of times the next day, and [...]

My friend here in Charleston - Mike - lost a password to get access to a system that he hadn’t tried to login to for over a year - and he ended up using MPR (Multi Password Recovery) to try and snoop his PC and get his password back. And of course, when [...]

Why the world would be a better place, if we just took all the 300 or so individual countries, and merged them into one big country.
1. We could all speak the same language (Esperanto, anyone?) School lesson time would then be freeed up to learn other stuff intead of all those different languages.
2. [...]

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again - making my life so much easier here every morning for the last eight months or so has been access to UK radio stations via the wonders of the internet and Sirius radio.
My primary brekky show of choice is the ‘Saviour’ of BBC Radio 1, one [...]

Location: All Bar One, last Friday (5th Jan), under the shadowy glow of the London Eye.
Geoff: “So let me get this right, you mean to say that you were pissed off with me when I moved to America?”
Person-I-Was-Having-Conversation-With: “Kind of … there is an element of you moving is like you’re saying ‘You and England [...]

I am exhausted.
I am completely, utterly, totally, thoroughly drained and exhausted.
On the plane on the way back last night, I had a ‘finger count’ on my hands to be sure of the exact number of days that I spent back home1 in England. It was 11, plus a day of flying either side.
All I can [...]

In a change to planned bloggage:
The tenant in my flat who was supposed to move out by December 28th is refusing to go. I am now having to get a solicitor to go to the courts to evict him with a possession order. We suspect the tenant is doing this on purpose so [...]