Archive

• Oscars 2021
• Still looking at the stars
• A bit longer to reign over us
• @R.Mutt
• Comfortably fungible
• Dreams of a Red planet
• Got myself injected
• Incomplete deliverance
• Premature insurrection
• Riot on the Hill
• New year, old problems
• 2020: The year in review – Part 2: Blogging
• 2020: The year in review – Part 1: Culture
• Festive half-cheer
• Lost Christmas
• Cold winds blowing
• Life after Trump
• Savour the moment
• Biden time
• Waiting for Trump to go
• One further message to my friends in the US of A
• Beyond recovery
• Corona karma
• Not bystanding
• RBG RIP
• Hierarchy of fear
• Summer of discontent
• Atlas mooched
• Solstice unease
• Putsch comes to shove
• Coup de tweet
• Premature relaxation
• Furry traversing
• 176400
• Thoughts on La Peste in the time of Covid-19
• Get well Boris
• Isolated musings
• There's a catch
• A plague on all our houses
• Super Tuesday 2020
• Viral concerns
• Trump Rex
• New Hampshire 2020
• Oscar predictions revisited
• Oscar predictions
• Iowa, finally
• 02022020
• Last exit to Blighty
• Trump and tribulation
• Neil Peart RIP
• Six hundred
• 2020 vision
• 2019: The year in review – Part 2: Blogging
• 2019: The year in review – Part 1: Culture
• Star Wars IX – instant review
• Far, far away
• State of disappointment
• Long dark night
• Nervous anticipation
• To the polls
• Scritti di Twitter
• Tweeted out
• Conflicting narratives
• Questionable things
• All I want for Christmas
• Time to vote
• Delayed disgratification
• Back on the brink
• Criminally inept
• Polarising opposition
• Supreme optimism
• Courting disaster
• Judicial discomfort
• Endless woe
• Inauspicious debut
• Unenabled
• Eternal vigilance
• Shock of the coup
• Out of the wild
• Reach for the stars
• Boris in Brussels
• Battle for the past
• Temporary catharsis
• A nation divided
• There may be trouble ahead
• Darkness before the dawn
• Local confusion
• Incassable
• Once more on Wikileaks
• Intergalactic perspective
• Neighbourly intervention
• Comforting distance
• Uncoupled from reality
• Tactical resignation
• Indicative indecision
• Teflon Trump
• Temporary reprieve
• Don’t worry, be happy
• No third chance
• Web of reaction
• Departure delayed
• The deal that will not die
• Deadlock redux
• Back from the edge?
• Finally?
• Endgame forecast
• More delay
• State in denial
• Incertitude prolonged
• Delusion prevails
• The Bear necessities
• Maintaining perspective
• No plan B
• Customary deadlock
• No-deal looming
• Not long now
• Post-reason politics
• Fragile hope
• Back to work
• Irresolute
• 2018: The Year in Review – Part 2: Blogging
• 2018: The Year in Review – Part 1: Culture
• 2018 Forecast results
• Happy holidays
• The Gatwick drone trials
• Drone on
• Feeling the fear
• A prayer for the deaf
• Continental rebuff
• Confidently unconfident
• Transatlantic distraction
• The lady is very much for turning
• Waiting for Tuesday
• Debate fatigue
• Pete Shelley RIP
• Risky business
• Early update
• For the ages
• Falling standards
• On the brink
• Remembrance Day 2018
• Northern lights
• Counsel of despair
• A gathering storm
• July daze
• Deutschland unter alles
• Teutonic reliability
• Full Marx
• Four-twenty
• The March of time
• Five Hundred
• The future is now
• Futurama
• 2017: The Year in Review – Part 2: Culture
• 2017: The Year in Review – Part 1: Blogging
• Thoughts on Catalonia
• Red October
• Guidance from above
• Rendezvous with Planet X
• Grant Hart RIP
• Lying low
• King of the Living Dead
• They shoot Youtubers, don’t they?
• The Grenfell Tower disaster
• Jez he could
• State of dismay
• Ten Years After
• Trouble in paradise
• À droit
• Well, how did I get here?
• Unexpected excitement
• Indefinite article
• International Women’s Day 2017
• Guiding Light
• Eve of destruction
• 2016: The Year in Review – Politics, Culture, Blogging
• Hasta la victoria siempre
• Seriously?
• One more message to my friends in the US of A
• I Wanna Be Sedated
• Half way home
• How ’bout them Cubs?
• Change don’t come easy
• He’s a poet
• Trumpocalypse now
• St Louis massacre
• Undebatable
• Pool’s re-opened
• Anti-Social
• Information overload
• Come what May
• Obscure future
• Euro 2016 forecast
• So long, farewell, auf weidersehen, goodbye
• Separation anxiety
• Exit Flagger
• Lovesexy
• High times
• Top Trump?
• Contrasting fortunes
• Wild gravity
• Iowa revisited
• There’s a Starman waiting in the sky
• 2015: The Year in Review – Part 2: Blogging
• 2015: The Year in Review – Part 1: Culture
• Seriously though, don’t bomb Syria
• Don’t bomb Syria
• Memories of futures past
• Underdogs have their day
• Long to reign over us
• Summer torpor
• Further thoughts on the Greek situation
• Post-oxi
• Oxi
• Making up time
• They were defeated, we won the war
• Polls apart
• Final prognostication
• Smoking up
• Long range forecast
• Predictably unpredictable
• Total eclipse of the blog
• Will this do?
• Greeks bearing gifts
• 2014: The Year in Review – Part 2: Blogging
• 2014: The Year in Review – Part 1: Culture
• Turn The Season
• Bad news for bears
• That TV show you like is going to come back in style
• Waking from the virtual dream
• In search of lost paperbacks
• Not far to reach
• Social emotions
• Always hopeful, yet discontent
• Playing History
• Jumpers for goalposts
• Seven Year Itch
• Have Bong – Will Travel
• Forty Years Of Insularity
• This “Internet” thing might catch on
• Into the valley of Death
• The value of application
• Pete Seeger RIP
• All power to the Soviets!
• 2013: The Year in Review – Part 2: Blogging
• 2013: The Year in Review – Part 1: Culture
• The Spy in the Cab
• Nelson Mandela RIP
• Once more unto the breach
• First thing you learn is that you always gotta wait
• CD
• My God Is The Sun
• September 11th 1973
• Green Typewriters
• Constitutional scepticism
• The blogging dead
• Roboshrink
• The Joy of Six
• Break On Through (To the Other Side)
• Jennifer She Said
• Ha Ha Thatcher is dead
• International Women’s Day 2013
• Viva la Revolución Bolivariana!
• There is no land beyond the Volga
• The Griefing Games
• 2012: The Year in Review – Part 2: Blogging
• 2012: The Year in Review – Part 1: Culture
• The Lay of the Last Avatar
• End of Daze
• Post-viral fatigue
• Four more years
• Another message to my friends in the US of A
• It’s an ill wind…
• Guess I’ll go eat worms
• Power and ideology on the internet: thoughts on the Violentacrez case
• Hooray for Hugo
• Mitt of Pandaria
• Republican Mitt-fortune
• Conventional wisdom
• Weeded out
• Lunar Requiem
• Free Pussy Riot!
• Fallible Heroes
• Can you Digg it?
• Grey Skies
• Life imitates sport
• Euro predictions
• God save your mad parade
• We got five years, my brain hurts a lot
• All Stars
• Austerity check
• Wasted Youth
• I’d work very hard, but I’m lazy
• Planned obsolescence
• Boring Tuesday
• Davy Jones R.I.P.
• Leap of imagination
• Livin’ on a Prayer
• You Can’t Always Get What You Want
• To the right, ever to the right?
• Furious Newt
• So long SOPA
• New Hampshire
• Courting the virtual constituency
• Iowa forecast
• 2011: The year in review
• In the Bleak Midwinter
• Subdivisions
• Thoughts on the Eurozone crisis
• Life During Wartime
• The Physical Impossibility of Running an Art Gallery in Second Life
• Time takes its crazy toll
• Kloutless
• Steve Jobs R.I.P.
• Enmeshed
• Benign neglect
• Off the wagon
• It’s Summertime
• See My Friends
• Gil Scott-Heron R.I.P.
• Four Years
• Do You Believe in Rapture?
• Caledonia rising
• Bin gone
• Apple stalk
• The (Un)Freed Weed
• Spaced Out
• Red star shines on
• Reality intrudes
• Win some, lose some, it’s all the same to me
• Won’t you please be my friend?
• The Solution
• Zoned out
• The Leopard
• Be thankful for a dull life
• International Women’s Day
• Thoughts on the Libyan situation
• The Great Gonzo
• The wrong move at the right time
• Victory to the Egyptian people
• Egypt in revolt
• Everybody’s Happy Nowadays
• Martian Chronical
• The Social Network
• Where Is My Mind?
• Mutsugoto gone
• 2011: The year in preview
• 2010: The year in review
• Yuletide Greetings
• Downhill Racer
• 300
• They’re living on nuts and berries
• Cleaning up
• The time is right for a palace revolution
• In support of Wikileaks
• Panorama on video game addiction
• Everybody’s got a bomb
• Snowblind
• That’s Not My Name
• Brink of the Clouds
• God Save The Queen
• That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore
• Living in Gangster Time
• Reoccurring Dreams
• California Über Alles
• Memory Lapse
• A Message for the Voting Public of California
• Fading Skylight
• In Dreams
• Red Ties
• Soon it will be gone forever
• Cut Away
• Subterranean Hope
• Into the light
• Give Peace a Tweet
• Universal Gloom
• The Revolution Will Not Be Twitterised
• Blame It on the Boogie
• Thoughts on the Pitt Meadows case
• The rest is silence
• Brainy Dead
• Running Away
• Twilight of the Gods
• Anatomy of a scandal
• Teenage Kicks
• Upon the dismal shore of Acheron
• Rubber Soul
• Virtual alchemy
• Comic archetypes
• Resident value
• On the unreliability of memory
• World Cup predictions revisited
• Bastille Day 1989
• From Off the Streets of Cleveland
• Preternatural Greenies
• World Cup predictions
• Bloody Sunday
• Après le déluge
• Linden layoffs
• Gaza Flotilla
• Explosive talent
• That gum you like is going to come back in style
• Introducing the SLSBPI
• Now we are three
• Digital Death Day
• Reality is overrated
• Liberal betrayal
• Election reaction
• Trepidation
• Cinco de Mayo
• Election prediction
• Fear of change
• New media, new politics?
• Liberal Distraction
• Virtual Epiphany
• Прощай Woodbury
• Revolutionary Litigation
• Happy 4/20!
• Chronicle of a TOS Change Foretold
• Liberal Renaissance
• Like Pompeii (or Herculaneum)
• Virtual world voters shunned
• Taxing issues
• Never Mind the Bollocks
• There can be only one
• Electoral outlook
• Second Life demographics – a brief review
• The Linden Principle
• On good authority
• Internet addiction update
• Big Star
• Falling into the chasm
• On Second Life and addiction
• A Radical Game
• Discordant Thinking
• Monetising SL 2.0
• The Kid With The Replaceable Head
• O Superman
• Second Life, with graphics, on the iPhone?
• Zombie Glamour
• The Avatars United will never be defeated
• Two Galleries
• The Death of Hope
• I Wanna Wanna get the New Model
• Injustice Unlimited
• Comrade Obama
• And the lights all went out in Massachusetts…
• Just what is it that we want to do?
• You say you want a revolution
• What’s up
• 200 not out
• History needs a push
• Merry Yuletide
• Virtual Bakumatsu
• Watching the Okhrana
• Liberté, Egalité, Virtualité
• Back from the dead
• On being kind not cruel
• Incomplete hints of impossible marvels
• Why we hate and fear the BBC
• Tweetomania
• Scenes from the Class Struggle in Second Life
• Bonfire of the Inanities
• A Nation of Shopkeepers
• Love Forever Changes
• Waiting at the Berlin Wall
• District 23
• Taking Ownership of the Problem
• The Call of the Cornfield
• Feel Good Hit of the Autumn
• I need to return some videotapes…
• Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
• The killer awoke before dawn
• Learn to forget
• Brother, can you spare me an ISK?
• I want to spin my little watch right before your eyes
• Twixt and between
• Flogging a dead zombie
• Zombie Bites
• Zombie Epidemiology
• Paging Dr Galt
• Deliver us from Facebook
• Deadly therapy
• Sarah Palin – Secret Socialist?
• Forward to the past
• Fly me to the moon
• (Don’t) Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment
• Wind of Change
• Nothing to do with your Vorsprung durch Technik
• Persian diversion
• Off the wall
• Sunny Afternoon
• Another year
• Just to clarify…
• No man is an island
• Do boys make passes at avatars with glasses?
• Is that a blog in your pocket?
• Unrewarded talent
• Ferrisburg, Vermont
• Like tears in rain
• Bötterdämmerung
• Twilight of the Replicants
• Aspects of intimacy
• Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment
• Career Opportunities
• M is for Pangloss
• Live from East 3rd Street
• Girl from Mars
• Lists are a good idea after all
• Here comes the summer
• Big Bird is watching you
• History is a random aggregation of opinion
• Bad reputation
• Command-X, Command-C, Command-V
• Intelligence Failure
• Plunging Necklines
• Paranoid
• Brave New World
• On the margins
• Less than zero
• Et in Arcadia ego
• Greenies may have invaded some time ago, we hear
• MMORPG mental health professional
• A suitable case for Tweetment?
• Creative licence
• Is Olivia a Punk Rocker?
• Turn On The News
• Precocious wisdom
• Cargo cult consciousness
• Space Oddity
• R.I.P. Lux Interior
• Electronic Arcadia
• The Sprawl
• Nietzsche work if you can get it
• Bandwagonesque
• Laura
• The best laid schemes
• Virtual Monopoly
• Twitter on
• Fool O’Beans
• Gigantic
• Prosaic reality
• Poetic Truths
• Modern Romance
• Art star
• Ninja Tool
• New Year, new me
• Mad? You call me mad?
• A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall
• I’ve got an iPhone and I’m gonna use it
• Ton up
• iPhone therefore I am
• Unreliable anonymity
• Hot Chicks with lawyers
• Uncertain principles
• Second reverence
• Lost in MySpace
• SLart attack
• Bunny worship
• Virtual misbehaviour
• In the neighbourhood
• I’m waiting for my lich
• The Bedlam factor
• Re-tagged
• Yes he could
• A message to my friends in the US of A
• A hostage to fortune
• A foreign country
• October surprise
• View from afar
• Favorite T
• It’s the end of the world as we know it
• Questions of character
• Fame at last
• Banking on a crisis
• Superstition aint the way
• Unclear politics
• St. Louis Vice
• Looks familiar
• L$700 Billion Question
• “All of ’em!”
• Voodoo Chile
• Virtual stability
• (No) Black Magic Woman
• Tag this
• Reptilia
• All change
• Palin into insignificance
• Back on track
• Thinking to do in Denver
• Golden Years
• Alone Again Or
• Diane …
• End of the dream
• Happy Birthday
• Slipping Away
• Eyes on the prize
• Brand new love
• Conduit (not) for sale
• (In)decision time
• Remember the Alamo
• Super Tuesday
• Stuck in the real world
• Carolina Blues
• Banking crisis
• On a roll
• Still on the campaign trail
• On the campaign trail
• Time passes
• Feeling Small
• Elf Actualisation
• Almost Famous
• Face/Off
• Property Speculation
• Magic Mountain
• How to make money on Second Life
• Rotterdam Bar
• The thousand natural shocks
• More on the economy
• Working for the Linden Dollar
• Screams from a mall
• Stranger in a strange land
• It works
• Ready to go
• Elevate me later
• On the Game Grid
• Attack of the Mutant Space Zombies
• Technical Update
• This ain’t the Mudd Club
• Jerome update
• I fear to watch, yet I cannot turn away
• My friend Jerome
• Some encouragement
• Blog Idol
• Ah…sweet liquor eases the pain
• Endless Vacation
• How long is too long?
• The Fictive Personality Revisited
• Formal confusion
• A bigger picture
• Crime and Punishment
• Virtual intimacy
• Online dishonesty
• Moving on up
• Political Blogging
• Research resources
• The Competition
• Technical difficulties
• Initial enthusiasm
• Over-optimistic statement of intent