Unplugging from the Matrix

Am looking forward to setting my out of office message and winding down to a week unplugged from the matrix. I will have my personal laptop with me but only for photo downloads from camera and iTunes updates. Will also have iPhone and may well play with social media and keep up to date with news but really want to minimise this as much as possible. It's finally time to have some downtime, do some thinking and recharge the batteries. I almost can't remember the last time I completely unplugged quite as much as I'm planning over the course of the next week. I think it was when I went to Florida, so that makes it at least three years!

It's the final episode of Ashes to Ashes tonight. I need to go back and watch Life on Mars which is something I will do when I get back from Cornwall.

And when I get back am looking forward to Crick Boat Show over the Bank Holiday weekend and then getting my hands on long awaited iPad. Geek heaven awaits!

Can't wait for the girlfriend and little people (the Cairn terriers) to arrive and get this party started!

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Ed Miliband

I thougt Ed Miliband sounded quite credible on Andrew Marr this morning. Feel more inclined to think he may make electable Labour leader - more so than his brother. I'm not quite sure why I don't quite trust David, but there's just something about him that doesn't quite feel right. Then again would have either of them before Ed Balls, who strikes me as someone with personality defects similar to Gordon Brown. Balls would make Labour unelectable in my view.

Why they want to stretch it out until the autumn is beyond me. Surely a more concise timetable could be put together that allows candidates to make their case and then vote on it. Hell, we can work out who should run the country in a month. Any longer to elect Labour leader is gonna bore the pants off of most of us.

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