Rejoice ! After 18 months, Rupert and Richard have ended their standoff and the Sky channels will be returning to Virgin Media. Now, I wonder if some kind soul could fill me in on the last 18 months of ‘Lost’.

Occasionally, I commute into London on South West Trains. I normally listen to music or podcasts during the half hour commute into Waterloo. Whenever I buy a ticket at the station, I always pause the music and remove my earphones. This is for two reasons: I need to be able to communicate with the person to purchase my ticket. People behind me in the queue may not want to hear ‘Serve the Servants’ by Nirvana. Last Monday morning, I joined a short queue to buy my Travelcard and removed my earphones as usual. ...

Surrey Traffic Police should run a recruitment campaign with the tagline ‘Join Surrey Traffic Police and see the world.’ This would appeal to young men who fancy the glamour and travel traditionally associated with the Armed Forces but are slightly wary of losing their lives in Iraq or Afghanistan. In August, I hired a car mid-way through my holiday in Venice to drive to the foot of the Dolomite mountains and also took the opportunity to visit Lake Garda. ...

Although I will always associate Paul Ince with the phrase ‘big time Charlie’, I do think the Blackburn manager talks a lot of sense. In particular, I think he was correct in his assessment of Celtic’s display at Old Trafford on Wednesday night in the Champions League. Apart from a few early promising moments, I think the gulf between the two sides was embarrassing. In fact, when I first tuned in to watch the game, initially I thought I had got the dates mixed up and I was watching United playing Norwich City in the Carling Cup.

18 months ago, I reviewed the online editions of the leading UK newspapers and the various syndication options. At that time, all the newspapers only offered partial text feeds which, in my opinion, is understandable but unsatisfactory. So I was pleasantly surprised to read in ReadWriteWeb that The Guardian has broken ranks and now offers full text RSS feeds. It will be interesting to see whether this increases subscribers for The Guardian and whether the competition will be persuaded to follow suit.