The end of my frustration…

I have had a very difficult couple of days publishing posts on my blog using Windows Live Writer. Microsoft picked up on it instantly after I wrote about it earlier today and discovered that a block had been created by the server that hosts my website for...

Should BlackBerrys be banned in Parliament?

Well I’m sorry if MPs get bored sitting in Parliament. And I’m disappointed to hear that to help them through this ordeal, they could be allowed to take their BlackBerrys in to the most hallowed chamber in the land to help them pass the time. I’ve...

An invite to my birthday party

I see that David Miliband becomes the first minister to enter Second Life as an avatar to promote a carbon calculator. I am thinking of joining him there. According to the erudite Tom Paine, there is an airship in Second Life named after me. Although I regret that it...

My Windows Live Writer problem

I use Windows Live Writer to write my posts and it has always been brilliant. But yesterday it mysteriously refused to publish them, though I managed to write my missing post ok. It is so bizarre and infuriating. I spent ages trying to sort it out, but a message...

Time for Malta to acknowledge divorce

I had no idea that Malta was the only country in the European Union which banned divorce, though allowed marriages to be annulled. I caught the tail end of a radio interview about this yesterday, a young woman was saying how she was annulling her marriage on the...