For Christmas, my brother gave me a book edited by Max Brockman called 'What's Next?' It's a collection of essays by scientists, talking about their work and its implications.

There were a lot of interesting ideas in there. One thing that sticks in my mind is the research that shows …

What we should do next year is add some competition.

Either charter a couple of trains that just shuttle back and forwards between say Westbury and Bristol. Or book a load of coaches.

This time next year we'll be millionares!

The train company wasn't greedy enough. They could have made quite a bit of money if they'd have added another couple of carriages.

The problem is that there's no competition. If there had been, then a more commercially aware company would have taken their customers.

It's difficult to see how …

The quite bizarre situation that privatisation has given us means that trains are no longer put on at our convenience but when it's easy for the operators to do so. Customer satisfaction is way down the list of priorities.

My Dad with his then girlfriend in 1957.

I've emailed the Office of Rail Regulation

Hordes of people were unable to board the 10:09 from Bradford On Avon to Bath Spa. The train was crowded because of the entirely predictable Bath Half Marathon. A four carriage train should have been put on, rather than the two that …

Well, I'd read Sophie's World and Sophie's Choice. I picked up Jostein Gaarder's Through A Glass, Darkly and was enraged by the smug Christianity of it all. I don't like the fantasy genre, but give me the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Unbeliever over nauseating angels. The whole book is drearily …

Looks like you're having fun- I love roller skating! *envy*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbrsk3GgiA4

I woke up and saw a chair.

You know those Amazon recommends engines on websites? Well a concern is that you never get to see new things, it just give you more of the same.

I wonder if the same thing is happening with our immediate environment (hence the chair …