Category: old blogging

Work is going very well today. How rare. It’ll never last.
Meanwhile, the BBC does a feature on the famous Baghdad blog, as the Guardian has also done. If I was the author of this site, I’d be laying pretty low by now.

Excellent dinner last night at W2 in the company of Karen from California. Lots of gossip started in the bar at the sight of me entertaining an attractive lady, but dispelled (I hope!) when I pointed out the rather large lump of carbon on her finger.
I’m looking forward to getting back out to California already. I should be going there again in July.

The good thing about Kenny is that you can take a friendly sideswipe at him, and he doesn’t take offence. However, in spite of that, his is still not the best site for spandex opinions. That may be a good thing.
Of course, I’ll now expect him to exact revenge on me by blogging the movements of the two girls who live across the street from me, although he’d have to come round to my place to spy on them effectively.
Meanwhile, I’ve spent the morning in an important meeting, after which I found that I’ve been given the task of entertaining a transatlantic visitor this evening with no warning at all. Thankfully, I’ve been able to improvise some original entertainment at a moment’s notice – yup, drinks and food at W2. Let it never be said that I’m not innovative and can’t think on my feet.

I’m not usually one to get excited about celebrity women as some other bloggers do (no names mentioned, Kenny), but I do hope we get to see more of Aishwarya Rai, former Miss World and extremely beautiful and successful Indian actress. She’s just about to star in her first British film, Bride and Prejudice, which takes Jane Austen’s Bennetts and transforms them into a modern Indian family – which I reckon could be somewhat amusing.

It seems incredible that I can sit here in the comfort of my safe, warm and peaceful home, and watch live video with sound from Baghdad.
It’s 11.20pm on a Sunday evening in the Iraqi capital city. It seems very quiet.
UPDATE: 11.35pm, and the sound is filled with the noise of gunfire and distant explosions. I’ve spotted a few flashes in the sky, probably anti-aircraft fire. It is so strange to be able to watch and hear this unfolding from such a distance.
FURTHER UPDATE: the transmission has been interrupted. The BBC website warns that the webcast may be intermittent, which is barely surprising.

I’ve been slack. I’ve not fulfilled my blogging duty to link to other bloggers in a the-world-consists-only-of-blogging-and-nothing-else-matters kinda way. So, in order to make up at least a little bit, here is a small selection of recent posts that I’ve enjoyed/endured at other people’s weblogs:

• Luke tells us of his fear of spandex
• Darren points out that the best-known Baghdad-based blog has not been updated since Friday
• Steve goes gardening, and sets up a sublog to record it
• Vaughan discovers purple washing-up liquid
• Dave gets excited about double glazing contract management software
• Robyn reveals the cover artwork for the new Harry Potter novel
• Scary tells a shagging dog story

I note that this site will probably receive its 100,000th visit sometime around next weekend. Wow!

BBC war diary thing, here today.
Going to stop nursing you on this. It is linked every day from the BBC News homepage. But it remains essential reading.

Urf. My head hurts.
Beer, vodka, port and wine with Fi last night to celebrate her birthday, along with Jools, Fiona, Julie, Nic, Katy, Mark, Helen and Steve. Sightings of DA, Kearn, Clive and Matt.
I have a monster hangover. Why must the day be so bright?

The BBC war log is here today.

In a way, I’m sad that the Presidential Palaces in Iraq have been bombed. Architecturally, these are significant buildings, and it is a shame that they are being damaged and destroyed.