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Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Congratulations to The Reverend Christopher WH Goodwins, MA, Retd, who phoned me to reveal he's passed his final exam, flown his final solo and is now a fully qualified pilot for single engined aircraft under VFR!
[September 26, 1998, 6:29]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Talkback Mr Goodwins - you get better and better. Keep up the polemic! We need stuff like yours to keep those smarmy marketing types on their toes.
[December 8, 2003, 14:19]
Goodwins' Hot Dates: The Diary top ten for 2002
News Goodwins senior (that's me) sitting quietly on the sofa, battling with network settings on his laptop and occasionally unleashing an oath fit to singe a monkey. Goodwins junior (that's him) sits quietly alongside, battling with monsters on his...
[December 25, 2002, 6:24]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Goodwins Minor is staying over, which means the usual good-natured parental battle to keep the worst excesses of teenage Internet usage off my poor innocent network. Monday 27/08/2001 Bank Holiday Monday, and the weather recovers somewhat from the...
[August 31, 2001, 18:54]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Last week, I mentioned the Goodwins Sanity Detector, a curious device of my own construction that sits buried under strata of old press releases on my desk, remaining quiescent for years on end. Tuesday 7/05/2002
[May 29, 2002, 15:54]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Congratulations to The Reverend Christopher WH Goodwins, MA, Retd, who phoned me to reveal he's passed his final exam, flown his final solo and is now a fully qualified pilot for single engined aircraft under VFR!
[September 26, 1998, 7:29]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Goodwins: Oh yes it does! Tuesday 19/7/2005 Contrarianism can make vivid journalism. Omnes: Oh no it doesn't! The fine art of selecting a sacred cow and saying it's a pig can inject a useful jolt of surrealism into the veins to unblock the blood...
[July 22, 2005, 18:45]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Editor's Note - as it is the height of summer, Mr Goodwins' senses have followed the Parisian model and are currently away for the month. Consequentially, the following diary entries are even more likely to be pure fantasy than usual and should not...
[August 15, 1998, 6:09]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Talkback Keep up the great work Mr Goodwins, your diary always makes my week.
[September 22, 2006, 20:25]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog A taxi turns up at Goodwins' Heights to take me away. Get back to Goodwins Heights in fine jetlagged muddle. Rockwell Semiconductor Systems has decided to tell the world how clever it is, and to this end is shipping my portly self across to...
[February 14, 1998, 6:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Talkback dear mr goodwins i have not receved any emails please tell them i am on the up and up ijust want to have the time of my life thanks jeff
[February 15, 2006, 19:22]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Editor's Note - as it is the height of summer, Mr Goodwins' senses have followed the Parisian model and are currently away for the month. Consequentially, the following diary entries are even more likely to be pure fantasy than usual and should not...
[August 15, 1998, 7:09]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It's Monday morning, an event traditionally greeted at the House of Goodwins with cries of pain and disbelief. Monday 16/06/2003 I'm not an AM type, but my beloved son is determined to go one better: he'll only entertain the thought of wild horses...
[June 20, 2003, 17:11]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Mornings chez Goodwins are a pleasant routine: shower, shave and so on, then sit gently dripping at the pooter collecting the night's harvest of emails. Thursday Today is different: there's a familiar chirrup and an instant message sits there...
[July 20, 2001, 16:41]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News A taxi turns up at Goodwins' Heights to take me away. Get back to Goodwins Heights in fine jetlagged muddle. Rockwell Semiconductor Systems has decided to tell the world how clever it is, and to this end is shipping my portly self across to...
[February 14, 1998, 6:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Friday 28/1/2005 OK, I was wrong. I said that podcasting was the devil's own way of pouring aural concrete over the pristine grassy uplands of your iPod's hard disk. That it was yet another way for wannabe broadcasters to bypass the necessary...
[January 28, 2005, 17:30]
Rupert Goodwins' diary
Blog Tuesday Remember the Web? It was going to make us all golden heroes, sharing information around the world free of interference . Then the squalid toad of Commerce came along and squatted in the middle of the party, demanding to be fed.
[June 22, 2001, 17:32]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Monday 1/07/2002 Did you know the skies are full of amateur radio satellites? Well, not full -- but there are around thirty of them up there, all put into orbit for free by piggybacking on commercial or scientific launches.
[July 5, 2002, 15:41]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Monday 10/12/2001 The rumours have coalesced into facts: Amstrad is launching a new Spectrum. Well, not really. But it is launching a new e-m@iler phone after Christmas, and it will have a Web browser and a Spectrum emulator.
[December 13, 2001, 14:07]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Tuesday 11/12/2001 The repercussions from Enron's spectacular implosion continue to rumble across the sky. Now, it looks as if the company's broadband trading unit was the last straw, costing billions but generating only paper transactions that...
[December 13, 2001, 14:07]
