What does a manager have to do to stay in a job nowadays?

What happened to the eight managers who won the main trophies or league titles in English football in the 2011-12 season, twelve months down the line?

The Eurovision Song Contest 2013 Winner. Probably.

The song I think is worth looking out for is Birds by Anouk, of The Netherlands. It’s got an almost sixties psychedelic vibe about it – and it’s really good.

My 100 Favourite Songs of 2012

Here’s my 100 Favourite Songs of 2012. I tried to limit myself to three songs from any one artist (and almost succeeded).

The Police & Crime Commissioner Elections in Cambridgeshire

I can’t say I’m thrilled about any of the candidates, although I’m sure if they’d had more time and money to get their views across, one or two might have risen to the top.

Virgin Media TV Anywhere iPad app: hands-on user review

The Virgin Media TV Anywhere iPad app enables your iPad to become an amazing TV remote control. Here are my thoughts after a couple of days.

Installing Windows 8 over XP on a MacBook Pro

How I successfully installed Windows 8 on my 2010 MacBook Pro, previously running Windows XP SP3 on a Boot Camp partition of 150Gb.

Ryder Cup 2012: I still can’t quite believe I was there

Seven days since “the greatest golfing spectacle ever”, I’ve finally got around to putting some of my thoughts and memories into words.

Why this country didn’t do that well at the Olympic Games

This may have been the UK’s “greatest team ever”, in terms of where we ended up in the medals table, but I don’t think the athletes as a whole outperformed expectations in the way many commentators are taking for granted.

The Word Magazine podcast, presumably RIP

The Word Magazine podcast ran for five or six years, and totalled 242 episodes. I’ll miss it.

I go to my first ever public Council meeting

If I’ve met 500 people in this city over the years, I’d bet that the number who’ve been to a Council meeting would fit into my living room.

New websites for Cambridge

I’ve made a couple of new websites recently, one to campaign against a local development and one for a local interior design expert.

Best music of the first half of 2012

I’d thought that the last six months had been a bit of a musical desert, to be honest, but after I started to comb the archives, I found quite a lot to like.

My Dad

There’s nothing I can say here to do justice to how much of a loss we’ve just suffered with the passing of my Dad. He was a great man, and will always be my hero.

32 brilliant WordPress Plugins I couldn’t live without

Is this a definitive list of the very best plugins in their fields? No. Is it a list of ones which have served me well, over the years? You bet.

My View: Cambridge City Council Elections 2012 – Queen Edith’s Ward

Unlike Cherry Hinton, this is solid Liberal Democrat territory, with the Conservatives a fairly distant second last time out.