Met up with some friends last night in a very busy Freemasons Arms in Covent Garden. Les Battersby (some bloke from Coronation Street apparently) was drinking in there. Les kindly and repeatedly passed our rounds of ‘6 Spitfire and 2 Guinness’ into our little alcove as we enjoyed Liverpool versus Arsenal. ‘So, you’re in Coronation Street then ?’ ‘Yeah’ ‘Red or blue ?’ ‘Blue.’ ‘Oh.’

There is a memorial plaque on the northbound M40 motorway in Oxfordshire. Out of morbid curiosity, I pulled over this morning to pay my respects and read the inscription: Do not stand at my grave and weep Bring a picnic here instead Just be careful opening the driver’s door Because that’s what I did and now I’m dead

British Airways, shocked at missing out last year’s trophy, have launched a superlative campaign for 2008. Agency: Itchy & Scraatchi. Cost: £25,000 found in a digger after the completion of T5. Gate 3 - Newcastle airport. Together we can work wonders Off to a gentle modest start. Together we can get people talking about T5 That is certainly true. Together we can make T5 world famous Some wag has added a prefix of ‘in’. ...

Five months ago, I experimented with Disqus powered comments when this blog was running on WordPress. The trial was rather short-lived because I was disappointed that Disqus wasn’t able to fully integrate with all the existing blog comments. Importing comments still isn’t possible but Disqus says this feature is being worked on. However, I have decided to reinstate Disqus for the following reasons: Disqus recently added integration with FriendFeed so any contributions I make on Disqus powered blogs will also be visible in my FriendFeed stream. I am encountering an ever increasing number of blogs using Disqus. I am hoping Disqus will help to trigger more comments, interest and interaction on the blog. Disqus provide a nice combination widget providing ‘Popular’, ‘Recent Comments’ and ‘People’. The most recent release of Disqus included a raft of changes including support for Open ID. Disqus is being actively developed and, more importantly, listen to their users. I still have some reservations that the couple of articles with decent comment threads included replies to earlier comments (which are no longer visible) so we are literally starting from zero. However, hopefully some comments will appear soon and the tabs will actually display something ! ...

It’s no good. I simply can’t go on. I can no longer summon up the enthusiasm for blogging. All the warnings from the blogging 101 courses over the years have proven to be very true. I foolishly dipped my toe into Twitter and then FriendFeed but it’s no good I simply can’t go on with this any longer. I can’t bear to miss my children growing up just because ‘Facebook is so last year, Dad.’ ...