Things have been extremely busy this week, as I have pretended to be on vacation. I was also rather lazy yesterday, not to mention tired, after a couple of hours of hard skiing, so this one is again...

Yes, I know, this one is late again. It really could not be helped, due to significant exhaustion and a total lack of enthusiasm for writing on the part of Ye Graciouse Hoste. That tends to happen...

Seeing as how this week has been, yet again, rather busy, it is something of a miracle that any of us have been able to slow down and catch a breath. Things are moving far faster than any of us...

For those who have never read Edwin Abbott's mathematical fantasy, Flatland, it is well worth a look. You can read a lot of interesting and wacky ideas into it - one of the conventional takes on the...

Having already written roughly half a week's worth of stuff in the space of a few hours, I will refrain from making this a big long diatribe. Suffice to say, we are living through an age of...

I find myself watching Starship Troopers - the 1997 Paul Verhoeven film - once again, for reasons that rather escape me at the moment. The interesting thing about that movie is, provided you ignore...

Yes, late again, I know. No, I don't have an excuse this time, either. All I will say is, of late, I have been reading through Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, and let's just say, it has gotten me...

Just a quick one today, lads, as it has been a long day of... well, walking around aimlessly in the glorious and all-too-rare sunshine while trying, and failing utterly, to sort out arse from elbow...

Yes, this one is late again, and this time it is due to the stupidity of your host. You see, I was feeling grouchier than usual yesterday - due in no small part to somehow tweaking my back again...

Gents, have you ever had one of those days where you had grand plans to do all sorts of useful and impressive things, and it all came down to taking a 2hr nap on the couch? Well, that was pretty...

Let's start by doing that most British of all things - talking about the weather. Here in Moscow, we are currently experiencing gale-force winds and unseasonably cold weather. In Dubai, they just...

Apologies for the late poast, again, but being on vacation (for certain definitions of the term, admittedly - what I've been doing for the past 5-6 days probably isn't in line with what most men...