The terrible thing about the internet and Amazon is that they take the magic and happy chaos out of book shopping. The internet might give you what you want, but it won't give you what you need.

My idea of childcare at festivals is to sit at a trestle table with an ale while the kids run around and make up their own games.

I think it's good to look at how people lived before, and then take the best bits of that culture and try to mix it in with your own.

Am I the only person in the world who is shocked and amazed at the ongoing flattery of uebergeek Mark Zuckerberg?

Often, the things that a lot of work has gone into have been incredibly bad because they're over-worked.

Faffing is completely harmless, whereas its opposite - dynamic, purposeful activity - is often very harmful. Faffers do not tend to kill people or make them work 12-hour days or sell them shoddy merchandise or lend them vast sums of money that they cannot pay back.

Laziness works. And the simple way to incorporate its health benefits into your life is simply to take a nap.