Chaos on the trains this morning, for the first time in a while. I didn’t mind, of course, as it’s not like I had anywhere important to get to(!), and it was rather pleasant sitting out on the platform in the sun. When I arrived at the station, the backlog of trains that had built up was causing the announcement system to go into overdrive. South West Trains introduced their Customer Information System about a…

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This list of the top 100 April Fool’s day hoaxes of all time is actually quite entertaining. What struck me while reading through it, though, is just how gullible some people (well, a lot of people actually) can be. Well, there’s a lesson for anybody forwarding on all those Bill Gates will give you money emails, contemplating joining Cilla Black’s pyramid selling scheme, or sending me that piece from the Weekly World News about the…

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Wow. That didn’t take long. Rather glad I got my ticket yesterday, but now that it is sold out (or at least appears to be), I will only be really happy when I have those tickets in my grubby little hands. (That confirmation email is really not enough to satisfy my paranoia that something might have gone wrong…) Can’t wait though. By the sounds of it, from reading the forums on the official website, a…

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