In the interest of the fairly mundane, but a glimpse into my life… this is my truck’s current 6-disc changer line-up: Amadan - Hell Bent 4 Victory The Presidents of the United States of America - (self titled) Queen - Greatest Hits I Dethklok - The Dethalbum Raffi - The Singable Songs Co...

Neko Case has a new album coming out soon. The AV Club interviews her about it: In the epic battle between Man and Nature, Neko Case’s allegiance is clear. On her 2004 live album, The Tigers Have Spoken, she sings on the title track about a captured tiger: “They shot the tiger on his chain...

For the second time in three Tests, England came close to winning in Trinidad yesterday but were kept out by the stubborn defence of the West Indies tail-end batsmen. As in Antigua, last night's conclusion was fascinating, the tension felt by those following it on the other side of the Atlantic as k...

The details of Sharon Shoesmith's judicial challenge against the children's secretary, Ed Balls, first revealed by the Guardian last night, have been published today. In a statement, the lawyer acting for Shoesmith, the former Haringey children's services chief who was sacked in the wake of the Baby...

This should have been posted earlier today (OK, last week) but the computer software crashed on me this morning, which lost half an hour's writing. Fred Spofforth was Ashes Hero No 20 and No 19 is the second of five cricketing knights in this list, after Alec Bedser at No 40 . I'll leave it up to yo...

Here is one that might open up several more questions: In my Bible class for school, we were talking about Jesus casting the demons out of several people, including Leigon. My teacher said that it is likely to be “opressed” but not likely to be “posessed.” I also recently wat...

Yesterday YouTube announced it would no longer run "high quality" (aka legal) videos in the UK as the Performing Rights Society is charging too much for performers rights to make it viable (here is the BBC article). US internet radio station Pandora had a similar issue last year and pulled out of th...

and reading about Grace Slick, it is hard not to be struck by just how mundane one's life can appear....

It's been a little while since Monty Noble became No 21 in our Ashes Heroes list (normal work sometimes takes over the fun of blogging), but here is No 20, which will be followed soon by No 19. Ashes Heroes are like buses in that respect, only rather faster and less polluting. Most of them anyway. I...

It wouldn't be an England tour to the West Indies without a world record and we got agonisingly close to two in Trinidad today. No, it's not the record for the most boring Test. Nor is it one for the fewest wickets taken in a Test series (with 42 wickets, England are a long way from the mere 31 that...