Now and again, i read something in the media that really annoys me. 

I was reading the other day an article in the mainstream media that noted a well known Anglo-Dutch oil major's expansion plans in West Africa, and sneeringly introduced it as having a "penchant for profits". You might as well be calling them paedophiles. Since when it is unethical to make a profit? Since when is it a crime to want to make money? 

It seems that in the rush to greenify and liberalise everything, the baby has bee...
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As some of you may know, one of my main loves in life is hot food and chilli sauces. I am a mere padawan learner in the Jedi art that is being a true chillihead, but it is a lot of fun learning. 

I'd like to tell you a little bit about the time a chilli pepper nearly took my life. 

Have you heard of the Infinity chilli? 

Neither had I. Until I went to Masterchef Live last year. I wandered up to the Fire Foods stall and asked if he had anything REALLY hot. He smiled and asked if I meant hot or VE...
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Its that time of year again when our homes and domiciles are invaded by spiders. 

They come in, seeking refuge from the cold and looking to justify their miserable little spidery existence by sneaking up on us and scaring the living shit out of us. 

This is a guide to my thoughts on how you can meet the arachnid menace. Call it the Eight Legged Arms Race.

When you have a spider intruder, you need:

Air Pistol. When you absolutely, positively, gotta explode that fucker in a shower of legs and hair ...
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People ask a lot these days - what happened to trance? Is trance dead?  I think people glance back, misty-eyed, to the late-90s and to what trance used to be, and then compare it to what we have now, and see no resemblance. Opinions are them formed on the basis that different means new, and that old means dead. I think it is important to understand that the demographic was different then.

In the 90s you had big room trance that was radio friendly, that broke into the mainstream in many cases....

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It is an exciting time for me.

Having been in Singapore for the last year or so, following my wedding to the lovely Louise in August last year, we are flying home to London in a couple of weeks. 

I return to London a more driven, focussed, and appreciative guy than when I left, and I have to say I've missed it. I came back a couple of weeks ago and in March and was shocked at how little had changed. Even so, being out in Singapore, this most conservative and cynical of places, London represents...
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