Start: 95.4 Last week: 89.8 This week: 88.7
Tuesday 27 February: Thursday last I weighed 89.0. The following morning I was 90.6. Between the two I had eaten possibly the saltiest bowl of pasta I can recall. That gave me a new insight into the part water plays in short-term fluctuations. The more...

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You can’t keep up with everything. Never has the truth of this maxim been brought home to me more forcefully than this morning, when a colleague love-bombed the entire staff with a link to The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Austr...

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I think I may be in love. It's a long time since I've felt this way, since I've been eager to explore the further reaches of an infatuation. And an especially long time since a piece of software had this effect on me. I'm talking about Bookends, a piece of bibliographic magic for the Mac. But let's...

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Arlington Road has Tim Robbins and Jeff Bridges in it; what’s not to like? The heavy-handedness and plethora of hints that all is not what it seems. That old saw “Just because you're paranoid …” gets a good working over, and the end is something of a surprise, in a movie-making industry addicted to...

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Start: 95.4 Last week: 88.9 This week: 89.8.
Tuesday 20 February: Bah! A pox on working lunches, coffees (with cake) and teas (with biscuits). Whatever happened to that voice that used to tell me I didn’t need to nibble?