Bigmouth Strikes Again: Carrie Marshall's blog

According to the Evening Times: What it will mean? IT MEANS THERE WILL BE A BAN ON SMOKING. If you can’t work that out for yourself, perhaps university isn’t for you.

One of the members of a journo discussion forum I visit wrote an Ode To Late Payers, so I thought I’d have a go too. Here’s my effort, with apologies to Spike Milligan… I’d like to pay this month’s mortgage then go out tonight and get plastered but the money I’m due still hasn’t come…

I’ve just received spam from some ambulance-chasers, promising me that if I’ve been injured through no fault of my own I’m probably entitled to money. So I’m going to tell them that I was so surprised by their email I fell off my chair and slipped a disc.

Many freelancers (no, not me) set up one-man limited companies to avoid tax, which is perfectly legal and apparently very lucrative. Or it was: in yesterday’s pre-budget statement, Gordon Brown announced the end of the 0% company tax band, which means a pretty significant hike in limited company owners’ tax bills. Which just goes to…

Not a 360, but the old, “obsolete” model. Game’s flogging a brand new Xbox with a copy of Far Cry Instincts for ninety quid, which is a pretty significant saving (and a pretty decent game), and there are various other bundles on offer including an identically priced King Kong game bundle. Unlike the 360 there’s…

I decided to turn my Mac Mini into a music server for my living room. Yay me. The good: You can use it as an iTunes music server to transmit music to other macs in the house. You can watch iTunes visualisations on the TV. You can muck around with digital photos on your TV.…

I was going to blog about my back but it’s far too depressing, so I thought I’d write about this instead: according to the current issue of the NUJ magazine, book publishers no longer work with writers to improve manuscripts, but instead expect the draft they see to be the final draft. Which, if it’s…

According to eBay’s boss, anyway. If launch supply estimates from American Technology Research are accurate, that would mean that 10% of all Xbox 360 consoles sold in the US were either sold or resold through eBay. [Via Digg]

This comes out on Monday: And if you’re fast, you’ll get the limited edition second CD of Xmas songs which, according to Popjustice, has one of the greatest record sleeves ever: I haven’t heard the Xmas stuff but the album proper is great, shiny pop, albeit great shiny pop with one really awful track (“Racey…

The price will fall in a few months. There aren’t any second-hand games yet, which means even a modest games library will cost a fortune. Half-Life 2 on plain ol’ Xbox is incredibly good. I’m broke. I forgot to pre-order one.