Books I Have Started But Not Finished. First in an occasional series. No Logo, Naomi Klein, bought in August 2001. Have read 160/446 pages (not including the extensive and scholarly notes and appendices)

I bought stuff. Doh.

Saturday is Buy Nothing Day

Ananova report in Press Gazette.

Your student housemates have failed to do the washing up. Do you: (a) do it yourself (b) have a quiet word with them (c) craft a web-based tutorial (Parental advice: this site contains strong language)

got our first Christmas card today.

"Take a name from the list of most common names for babies in 1965 as your first name. Take a name chosen at random from the phone book as your last name. That's your Witness Relocation Program name." The Name�Game

reader's queue to have authors sign their books. do authors ever seek out the autographs of their readers?

Look, Mum, I'm in New Media Age

Scientists think they have found the gene which makes British worms brave.

Dahdahladah dahdahladah dahdaladah daahhh... [Windows start-up sound] PLUNK. [the error message that follows immediately afterwards]

Maybe I'm imagining it, but I'm sure for the last few days I've been getting more elbow room on the bus.

Over the weeks all the books and papers wore a hole in the sachet spilling a whitish powder on the bag and its contents.

Ages ago I had a cold and put a couple of Lemsip sachets in my work bag.

GPS Drawing. I wish I'd thought of this.