The larger the airport, the longer it takes to drive there, check in, clear security, order a sandwich, find a seat in the lounge, secure a taxi. In my limited experience, Heathrow Terminal 3 is pretty poor. Some small, anonymous airfield in Switzerland is the best. You pick up your own bags from the runway, walk to an empty terminal building and you even get to stamp your own passport. ...

My mailbox is bulging with letters from recent and occasional visitors worried that they may have missed some WordPress themes in the recent blitzkrieg of posts during the ongoing and exciting Theme rotation policy. Worry ye not. I am meticulously capturing screen dumps of each theme in a Flickr photoset so the poll will be absolutely fair and equitable (and Regulus will win). The current theme is Banana Smoothie. I wonder if coffee enthusiast and cocktail maker, Jon Emmons, might be voting for this one. ...

Describing your state of mind. I really don’t care whether you are happy, sad, somewhere in between or suicidal because your girlfriend dumped you. Describing your state of health. I really don’t want to read about your flu like symptoms, your hangover, your runny nose or your migraine headache. Otherwise you will give me one. Telling me what music you are listening to. You like your music. I like my music. We may share some common interests but it really doesn’t matter. ...

Apologies to all you Oracle Bloggers. Excessive traffic levels to my new Web journal on Blogger appears to have breached the ’tipping point’ and tipped it right over the edge. Blogger is unavailable (again). Two nights running. Hmm.

…and it really hurt. I continue to be intrigued by this article (I have now read it 67 times and still can’t make any sense of it whatsoever). I simply love the title so I thought I would blatantly plagiarise it. I also adore the Anonymous comments of ‘Not bad’ and ‘Nice job’. Damned with faint praise. Anyway, my shiny new blog in question is over here. Before you gleefully note that I have finally seen the light and have reverted to Blogger, this is simply an experiment to look at the Google Analytics dashboard and various detailed traffic reports. [GA requires Javascript which precludes its use on WordPress.com]. Inevitably, after a separation of six months, Blogger was sulking and unavailable last night. ...

Another in this occasional but very popular series: ‘I am doing this in the best interests of Rooney, the England team and 40 million England fans’ - Sven Goran Eriksson …and Alex Ferguson and Manchester United fans can just cross their fingers and hope. Still, I am looking forward to this TV program tonight.

There’s nowt as queer as folk. I could maintain a blog purely on search terms leading to this dark recess of the blogsphere. For example: ‘Urinals With a View at Stockholm Airport’ Worryingly, Stockholm is precisely where I am heading next week. Thankfully this time, I will be leaving the confines of the airport complex. I think I will abstain from all fluid intake prior to the flight, cross my legs and wait until I get to the hotel. ...

What could be worse than forgetting to bookmark the obscure page you found that maps out the perfect walking tour of Venice ? Well I can think of one thing. Going on a lovely, romantic weekend city break and getting lost (and wet) in the narrow backstreets of Venice. Then I eventually find an Internet cafe but am horrified to discover that the computer is locked down and I can’t install Google Browser Sync. My wife would be absolutely livid. ...

My humble blog got a mention on the Google front page. Well, my ' History of Oracle' entry appeared in the Blogs section of the Oracle page on Google Finance. Next stop - Top WordPress.com blogs.

A modern, standards compliant RSS feed. Whatever next. Let’s hope people take this opportunity to switch to a full feed. Odd to compare Google’s relative inactivity with all the features, languages, statistics, themes and functionality added to WordPress in the last six months.