Don’t use data roaming when on holiday in Japan:
That’s a phone bill that cost as much as my last holiday.
Posts under ‘Journal’
An Unbeatable Scheme
A guide to getting (marginally) rich(er) quick(-ish):
Take one promotion code offering free gambling credit when you deposit a small amount of cash in an online gambling site.
Sign up for said site and deposit money, earning yourself a supermarket voucher of equal value as well as credit to use on the site.
Bet the deposit money and [...]
Fear of Buses
I don’t know what prompted me to write the following account. I wrote it in the notes app on my phone about a week ago while lying awake in bed at about 4 AM. I’ve edited it a bit since then, but it’s still mostly in the rambling form in which I first committed it [...]
Tickets for BBC Recordings
Living in London allows you to do some things that were never really available at home. For example, I now have the realistic prospect of participating in a TV game show. One of the ones that you watch with incredulity while sitting at home with man flu, perplexed by the incompetence of the participants. Who [...]
Big Changes
I can’t remember the last significant blog post I wrote—in fact I’ve been pretty thoroughly out-posted by one of my more prolific Wordpress plug-ins recently—but in the time I’ve been away one thing stands out as the major change in my life. One experience that is entirely new to me. One thing that has changed [...]
Japan, in photos
I was in Japan the week before last, spreading my time between the futuristic wonder (and slight creepiness) of Tokyo and the cultural enlightenment (and slight discomfort) of Kyoto.
The trip was initially planned as what turned out to be an overly-ambitious meeting of Join Me in Tokyo. In the end, that event never happened. Or, [...]
To London
And now to the subject that brought me here to post. Feel free to ignore the previous post in which I indulge the ubiquitous blogger’s fallacy that everyone, or even anyone, cares about site upgrades.
The big news around these parts is my impending move to London. Behind this news is a host of recent negotiations [...]
A New Project
I have a confession. I’ve been seeing another blog. I didn’t mean to get drawn away, but I can’t help it. It just happened…
Actually, you know what? I’m going to stop the whole seeing someone else/seeing another blog thing right now before it gets tedious.
Here’s what’s up. I’ve decided to take on a new challenge. [...]
Surviving With Very Little Toothpaste
I’m in London for what I was shocked to figure out will actually be my longest ever visit to the UK. I’m staying here for a full seven days—practically an aeon when surrounded by funny-coloured buses and pastie shops. England for me occupies a dedicated spot in the uncanny valley, similar—but not similar enough—to home.
For [...]