ForEx is the New Porn?

While wilfing away a day or two ago, I saw a link to a feature called ‘Football - the New Porn?’  I didn’t click on it as my wilfing took me elsewhere, and I’m not a big fan of football (soccer to you Americans), but the headline stuck in my head for some reason. 
It was from some [...]

On Being Bald and Hirsute

Hair only made a very brief appearance on the top of my head between the years of around 1967 to 1983.  It was late in arriving and early in departing.
By the tender age of 19, it was already well on the wane.  A tragedy – at the time of life when most guys are experimenting with [...]

Why I’m Monolingual

Having lived in non-English speaking countries for the past 15 years, one would assume that I would be fluent in at least one foreign language by now.
One would be wrong.
Because, to the annoyance of girlfriends and other friends alike, I remain stubbornly monolingual.
This, they assume, is because I am lazy and stupid.  This is not [...]

Work/Life Imbalance

In recent postings I have described how I am addicted to nicotine and maybe to alcohol.  But I now realize that there is something else that I am hopelessly addicted to and that’s work.
It just became apparent to me over the last couple of days as I have some friends staying with me and would [...]

How To Make A Really Irritating Website

Although I am currently earning my daily bread by selling real estate, I would say in answer to the question “what do I do” that I sell stuff off the Internet.  Today this is property; tomorrow it could be completely different.
So, although I might come over as a complete twat in these postings, I actually [...]

On Becoming Telephobic

That’s as in ‘fear of talking of the phone’, as taken from the famous BT Commercial:

Unless the date was written on it, I’d never have guessed that this was from 1991 – I woud have thought it the best part of a decade earlier.  It really shows how adverts (and corporate [...]

Fucking With A Scam Artist – Attempt 2.1

Well it’s been over 24 hours now since I responded to the scam artist saying that I was interested in receiving more information and I still haven’t received a response yet.
What kind of customer service is this?  I demand that someone tries to separate me and my money immediately.
Someone should tell these people that, on [...]

Fucking With A Scam Artist – Attempt 2

Checking my stats, (which is something I do several times per day), I see that my most popular (OK, let’s put this into persepective – least unpopular) posting was My New Friend – The Nigerian Scam Artist, in which I started chatting with a scammer over Skype after I told him that I knew what [...]

Politics And Me

Anyone glancing at the WordPress Tagcloud will see immediately that, by far the most popular subject for blogging about is politics. 
As I have managed to chalk up 42 postings without getting anywhere near to the subject, it’s probably about time to tell you why.
In a nutshell, it’s because I have practically no interest in politics [...]

My Stupidest Mistake Ever

In yesterday’s posting, I described how I am addicted to Diet Coke/Coke Light/Coke Zero and I am maybe a borderline alcoholic according to some bullshit online quizzes.  But all of this pales into insignificance compared to my main addiction.
Which is nicotine.
I have done a lot of really stupid things in my life, but the most stupid [...]