Blogging Pit

Being a total uber-geek means that I already have a great excuse in buying outrageous pieces of computer kit!

At the business end of my "blogging pit" I have what is commonly referred to as the "tanning salon" - four 24" Dell monitors (one not shown) which means I can pretend I'm Tom Cruise in Minority Report and move windows around all four screens.

Most blogs displayed on the screen award?

Man Widdecombe, Dick Puddlecote, Anna Raccoon, Guido, LegIron and John Ward.

The power to the office is on a separate circuit from the rest of the house and is backed up by an APC UPS which gives enough power for 1 hours worth of World of Warcraft or 2 hours worth of development during a power cut.

There's an air-cooled cabinet containing 4 servers, a Draytek commercial duty firewall, CAT 6 cabling, various wireless peripherals, laser printer/scanner/fax, business ADSL and 10Tb worth of RAID storage - enough for the most depraved amateur porn aficionado.

Music to the office is streamed on the house network via the Popcorn Hour NMT.

I have no life... :)

Happy New Year to you all!

Terribly sorry...

...but work is commanding far more time than I can manage right now.

I missed Guido's PMQs and am unable to make time for the highlights.

Normal service will be resumed after Christmas.

Guido's PMQs Live - Football Edition

Thanks to Guido for hosting today's LiveChat where the window lickers gather for Wednesday's PMQs.


Once again big thanks to Dick Scratcher for Pantone Watch - this time a Hain Pantone Reference : 814D (Snowman’s Nose) !

Labour Parody of the Week goes to Kim Jong-Il with

Ed grows in stature with every PMQ's. He ran Cameron ragged today. Cameron looked rather amateur

Top line has to go to Cameron today with a much better performance than last time:

Rather be a child of Thatcher, than a son of Brown

Here are the highights:

Spank Sinatra: See Ed has still got bird sh** on his head

Tuscan Tony: Morning Chakrabati-lickers.

John Ward: "To infantility (i.e. New Labour) and beyond!"

StretchMarx: Harman wearing the remains of last nights Moules a la Mariniere round her neck

John Ward: Who's this lady "Rosie Scenario"?

Dick Scratcher: Harperson = where the postman likes to empty his sack

Dick Scratcher: People listening on Radio 5 have been phoning in, asking why the elephant man is asking questions.

Guido Fawkes: "Rather be a child of Thatcher, than a son of Brown" killer.

Dick Scratcher: Calm down! Calm down!

Spank Sinatra: Hub cap thief

Dick Scratcher: Yiddipudlian

Praguetory: Scouse comics are out of fashion aren't they?

Dick Scratcher: Mandy likes Olympic rings

Urban Tory: Is it me or has Hague got a bit of a Liberace tie on?

no longer anonymous: paisley is a time lord, he has re-generated

Sres: Son of Bwian!

Dorian Smith: Twitter twats are 5 mins behind FFS>>>>> some of the labour ones are still in the 70's

Spank Sinatra: Another bad advert for wigs

John Ward: "Reddish"? Ideal name for a Labour constituency ;-)

Beware of Geeks: Waking the Dead. One letter away from being the most controversial show on TV.

Tuscan Tony: Wan't thrombosis an early Pink Floyd album?

John Ward: I have safe sacks -- they never split whether for waste or recyclables.

Steve Miliband: Buzz Lightweight just turned into Buzz microlight