Pipex passes with these Hoff postcards found in local gymn. Scratch Hoff his pants (I don’t dare)

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Since I’ve always been a interested in science but too thick to understand most of it, I was always going to love Bill Bryson’s book explaining most of the big subjects in a world I usually can’t grasp. I enjoy it for two other reasons: 1. The art of being able to simplify the most…

Edward Hallowell, a Boston psychaiatrist has identified a conditon called ‘ attention deficit trait’ – or ‘online compulsive disorder’ with core symptoms of distractability, inner frenzy and impatience. It’s caused by the sort of information overload that’s commonplace today thanks to mobile phones, blackberrys wireless email and God knows what else. A point about emails…

I called two companies today for personal stuff. One was a bank that reckons they have ‘Another Way’ instead of the faceless, uncaring, impersonal competition. Waited two minutes to get through and spoke to a verbally challenged young fellow who put me on hold for three minutes. The other was a little clothing company in…

Scott brought this ball into work. It’s autographed by Roger Federer, so naturally I touched in in the hope of some talent rubbing off onto my malfunctioning backhand-  the vintage Lendl shirt hasn’t worked. Stu could teach me a thing or two anyway, he took a set off Henman as a junior, or so he…

August is an odd month, there’s nothing on TV and most can slack off in the quietest month of the year. Not agency land though. Mostly you work doubly hard to cover other people on holiday and spend your own break recovering. Being a one man department, it means doing as much as you can…

If you’re my age and you live in the UK, you’ve probably laughed at Paul Calf and his disdain of ‘lazy students’. But the picture of layabout undergraduates isn’t really true anymore, at least according to the The Royal Bank of Sctotland’s ‘student index report’ . Over half of undergraduates will work part time next…

I was reading that they’ve discovered a new techonogy for removable sticky stuff, all thanks to sudying spiders. Reminds me of all the things we’ve learned from copying nature. Like these: