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Posted in digression on Oct 26th, 2008
I’ve been meaning to write this for a while. To tell the truth, I feel a bit guilty that I didn’t before, but shit has happened. Simon Burke is a friend of mine through Emma. Somewhere near the beginning of 2007 he managed to find himself accompanying a drug-smuggler through Peruvian customs. You can read [...]
Posted in internet, journalism, marketing on Oct 26th, 2008
I’m 36 and no longer could I exactly be described as young. But age has its advantages. I like to think that what I lose in elasticity, I gain in wisdom. Still, sometimes I fall victim to the unfettered idealism with which I grew up. It wouldn’t be fair to say that I took a [...]
Posted in blog, freelance, journalism, work, writing on Oct 12th, 2008
We’ve been doing a nice line in lazy blogging lately. My excuse is I’ve been swamped with freelance at the same time as work went crazy. I was trying to work tonight, but (sorry Dave) it’s just not happening. A couple of weeks back I wrote a post about the state of the economy, but [...]
Posted in digression on Oct 9th, 2008
God I wish it was. Apart from the corners. They’d be a bit hairy. (via Scott)
Posted in digression on Oct 4th, 2008
It’s not often I feel moved enough by the news to do anything about it, but in this case, fate seems to have been particularly cruel: A cyclist who died in a road accident in Somerset had been on the final days of a charity bike ride from John O’ Groats to Land’s End, police [...]
Posted in politics on Oct 1st, 2008
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