The time has finally come to shave my head and don blue facepaint.

So now the whole world knows what living in London is really like. Clamouring with a crowd of 15 cosmopolitan, wackily dressed people, pushing and shoving trying to get on a red, double decker bus having waited 45 minutes. With some idiot playing Led Zep too loud on his iPod. Then David Beckham comes along, takes your brand new football and smashes it into the adjacent park and some bastard nicks it.

I have tried many times, in many different places, to articluate the idea that micro-blogging reduces ones blogging output but Russell Beattie completely expresses my thoughts on the subject in this brilliant article. ‘Tweeting totally takes away that blogging urge from me… Once I tweet about something, it’s like it disappears from my mind completely.’ I can completely identify with this statement and another sentence also struck a resounding chord with me: ...

‘This commercial free Bank Holiday Monday is brought to you by Magners.’ - Virgin Radio (25 August 2008) Well it may have fooled some of the listeners but it certainly didn’t fool me.