Tomalak Geret'kal

As the end of the year approaches, with offices closed for the holidays, decorations up, cruises canceled and early bargains coming online, there are all sorts of interesting things to talk about.

Firms are so threatened by the pressure of potential discrimination claims that they now have to pretend that the entire country is made up of blacks, Muslims and gays.

A brief commentary on recent experiences with npower (bad) and T-Mobile (good).

The American Dream is all about building wealth… financial wealth. How sad.

I thought I would take a moment to write about the Gloucestershire floods from my viewpoint in the thick of things.

The BBC points to what is possibly the country's oldest active driver.

It has come to light that workers at the Mountain View cyberfirm are routinely forced to swim the 3,000 miles between New York and Paris. Either that, or the trek otherwise seems of little consequence to those who construct the Google Maps tool.

As we all head down to the pub this afternoon with our Guinness hats, it's worth taking a closer look at the concept of celebrating national days in Britain.

Just what is our obsession with age these days? It seems sensible that there exist lower limits on things like driving, drinking and sex, but everyone seems to have forgotten that these limits only sit at comfortable integer boundaries because "when they're ready" isn't sufficiently logically quantifiable.

The BBC generally provides solid reporting on contemporary issues and modern events. Sometimes, however, I read articles on their website which are just stupid. For example, one article describes how "one of the alleged 21 July bombers would have learned about rates of reaction in substances when he studied chemistry at college" and makes it sound like a surprise.