The Strange World of Axel Fendersson

I heard back today from a job I applied for about a fortnight ago. I didn’t get it. That I didn’t get this particular job specifically is only slightly disappointing. It would have been a good opportunity to get into a job that would provide development and training, and which might have involved some interesting [...]

So, election tomorrow. And for the first time since I became old enough to vote in 2000, the result is not a completely foregone conclusion. Except that in this constituency it still is. Whatever the overall result across Britain, it is pretty much certain that David Cameron will still be MP for Witney. So in [...]

I don’t think this is news to anyone by now, but I have been booked to play at this year’s Oxford Folk Festival (see here, near the bottom of the page). I must admit this is quite intimidating, for a few reasons. I’ve played at OFF before, but not by myself and, Melomania aside, not [...]

On Tuesday, I had a haircut for the first time in nearly three years. And it got me thinking. How is it that hairdressers are allowed to price their services based on the gender of the customer? Now, I can see how women’s haircuts would typically be more expensive than men’s. Women’s hairstyles are often [...]

So, it’s a new year. And indeed a new decade, unless you feel that the decades have to sync up perfectly with the centuries. I don’t. We don’t refer to decades as part of a sequence as we do with centuries (as in ‘the twenty-first century’), we refer to them in terms of the digits [...]

I learned in the pub this evening that there is a page on Encyclopaedia Dramatica dedicated to someone I have met in person. In all honesty, it’s rather sad to see that since the last I heard of him several years ago, he not only hasn’t managed to pull himself together and sort himself out, [...]

So Christmas has been. It has not, however, gone. Christmas does not end until Epiphany on the sixth of January. But Christmas day is over, so I can at least do some reflecting on the subject. I think one’s enjoyment of Christmas is very much dependent on one’s relationship with one’s family. It’s almost invariably [...]

Well, having migrated this blog over to its new WordPress-based setup, I quickly discovered the downside to this arrangement: comment spam. I never had any comment spam before. I don’t know whether the system I had before was just particularly resilient to spam (possibly because having the comments hosted externally from the blog itself was [...]