I'm not as kind as Clay Shirky. I'd have called it cognitive heat sink. Telly and Gin on balance just suck the mind off (sic)

The end of my Beijing tea supplies. It's not the same doing a Chinatown run and this last cup is memorably from the Friendship store.

Miss 'O' just called. She ate too many Cockroaches and her skin has flared up. There's not much to add. #thai #rural #delicacies

Live from Bogota sounds a bit preposterous for a tech mix. Next it will be the Falkland Isles or Bhutan. Still I persist.

..and Reggae and Samba beats before I head out ping.fm/og9l3

It's all white linen (including wifebeater) with Dutch tracksuit top thrown around the waste to take the edge of the Stella violen

"All songs belong to the world" Ben E King (Pretty much how I feel about any art)

Feels like I've been listening to Paul Gambaccini since the beginning. Has he got an OBE yet?

At least with Carrefour there's a distinct French retail flavour with fois gras to cheeses. Tesco could easily be Walmart for all I know.

Hopefully Sarkozy goes down. Appalling guy if anyone caught his African speech.