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Christmas joy should indeed be running through my veins. Sadly I’ve just finished a twelve hour baking stint. So the only thing running through my veins is an absence of Stella Artois which I will be remedying as soon, and as quickly, as possible.
Accompaniment to this evenings cooking recovery will be Anoraknophobia by [...]

Stop what you are doing. Right now. I don’t care, its not that important. No really. You will thank me.
Good. Now go and read late_bland’s story, possibly the funniest piece of writing I’ve seen about the Rugby World Cup.
Right, thats me done with rugby references. At least until the Six Nations starts in February anyway.

Thanks to this year’s Guardian Unlimited – best of British blogging awards (and Scary Duck) we bring you two crackers;
Call Centre Confidential
The Bottle Shop: On the arcade
Both of which will be appearing on the left hand side of this page just as soon as I can be bothered to updated it.
Rest assured, gentle reader, [...]

Once more I must ratchet up the geek factor. Now you can go to a web page and find out what music I’ve been listening to. If that isn’t a pretty pointless use of technology I don’t know what is. Oh hang on, there’s more. You can also subscribe to an RSS feed containing [...]

I for one shall not be watching the International Idol contest whenever it appears on the television in these parts. Words can do no justice to the disdain and I feel for this brand of entertainment.
You know, it would all be so much better if they could at least sing.

So, its been sitting on my mental "to do" list for a couple of years and tonight, when SWMBO popped out for a couple of sherbets with the ladies from Nappy Valley, I thought I’d solve a little mathematical problem.
Each year (apart from this year) we have a Christmas celebration dinner at the Watermark in [...]

Look, I’m cool because I was doing it first. Jamie Oliver has a blog. He’s copied my title, software of choice, cheeky persona and everything.
Mind you, I’m about a good a cook as he is a software developer so I reckon we are about even.

An interesting weekend for the Todds. On Saturday morning I visited the cheeky, chirpy, Chelsea loving Cockney barber. He’s still not a patch on the unofficial Mayor of Manly (Rocky) but he has managed to make me look vaguely presentable.
Then on to deepest, darkest Sussex for a ride on the Bluebell railway’s Santa special. Its [...]

Its been a while, and frankly I hadn’t been checking, but Bobo’s favourite restaurant in the whole wide world now has its own web site. Say hello to Ribs and Rumps. If the menu isn’t enough to tempt you through their doors, how about the celebrity endorsements?
I don’t know about you, but anywhere that gets [...]

Whilst I’m having a quick surf around the BBC sport web site at 11pm on a Monday night, here is something for Jonny Palmer to put on his desktop – some quality wallpaper.