With great pain I acknowledge the Yankees are no longer in the basement of the American League East, the Baltimore Orioles have taken their place. It was nice while it lasted.

I have been sometimes lectured that we in the United States don’t pay attention to the hard news and that is why we are so uninformed on the world sometimes. In interest of equal time with our UK brethren I present the most popular news story on the BBC this morning. We American’s can’t compete [...]

I am doing some work on the design of this website so if you see anything broken or miss something let me know. I will be reworking the site’s theme, adding support for Gravatars and generally poking about for the next couple of days.

To those who come here searching for “the rise & fall of ruby woo” torrents. You can sample most of the music on the album at their website and mySpace page. I understand wanting to listen to an artist before you buy and support that, but if you are just looking to steal their music [...]

Ok, I do have some sympathy for the descendants of Admiral Byng, but not much really. They have put a petition to Parliment to ‘restore his honor’, but not pardon him. They say It has been a long time … but if we were moved by the families of World War One, which was a [...]

This limited edition soda from Dr Pepper is liquid yak barf. That is all.

Scotland after curing cancer, defeating poverty, abolishing alcohol abuse and ending the sectarian disputes between Celtic and Rangers fans moved one step closer to perfection by producing a draft document of government guidelines for cat ownership, the Draft Cat Welfare Code of Practice. Wait? What about man’s best friend? Don’t sob, Scotland the nearly perfect [...]

So I got sent this by some of the Europeans at work. This is of course exactly what they think all Americans are like. I don’t mind, it make me look good.

So I was reading Tony Long’s complaints about holiday excess in Wired and I had to pause and ask myself “Self, why don’t you hate Christmas?”

Two great stories out of Wales today. In the first Llandudno’s finest bust a children’s chorus at the shopping mall for drowning out the sound of the tills. Thats some mighty fine policing there Lou. In the second an Irishman was convicted and received a jail sentence for racial harassment for calling a Welsh woman [...]