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The Guardian reckons that people aren’t blogging so much any more, and much prefer the shorter, sweeter option of tweeting and updating their status on Facebook. A lot of it is based on anecdotal evidence but there’s some science behind it, according to Charles Arthur. NetNewsWire, my RSS feed reader, has nearly 500 feeds. When [...]

You might have noticed I haven’t written much here recently. That’s because I can’t think of anything interesting to write about. Each post takes quite a lot of time to write and research and, after two years of doing that, in the long run I’m not sure what the point is. Google ranking? Lots of [...]

I went out to John Lewis this lunchtime and bought a new telly. I know there’s a recession on and everything but having spent the New Year staring at the huge new flatscreen TVs owned by family members, I suddenly realised my beloved 26-inch JVC (bought seven years ago for £375 in cash from a shop [...]

As I’ve nothing better to do and 2008 has now definitely finished, I thought I’d provide you with my list of my favourite things from the year just gone. Happy New Year, by the way. Film I thought Wall-E was surprisingly deep for a kids film and was also technically flawless. But There Will Be [...]

I’m now back from my holidays in Brazil. A great time was had, although I appear inadvertently to have gained half a stone in weight. We did all the tourist stuff (Sugarloaf Mountain, Christ the Redeemer, Maracana stadium, museums, boats, waterfalls etc.) and I learned lots of stuff, such as: Brazilians like to eat a lot [...]

I’m going on holiday for the next three weeks and will not be posting anything on Words Dept. until after Christmas and possibly until the New Year. I may, if I can be bothered, post some Twitter updates while in Brazil, which will appear in the little panel on the left. Until then I wish [...]

My two regular readers will be aware of my holiday problems. In short, we (that’s me and my girlfriend) booked a three-week holiday in Thailand several months ago, which we have had to cancel as a result of the closure of Bangkok airport. While the airport has started to handle flights again, the huge backlog [...]

There seems to be a reasonable chance that the situation in Thailand is going to escalate in the next few days, which is causing me quite a bit of stress because I’m due to fly there for a three-week holiday at the end of next week. Hopefully it will all settle down in the next [...]

I went to see the Le Corbusier exhibition in Liverpool yesterday. It was pretty good, although I found the layout a bit confusing – I prefer a chronological approach rather than a thematic one if it’s not a subject I’m especially familiar with. I’d also have liked a bit more of a focus on the [...]