HTML Tables
Repeat after me HTML tables are good, they are my friends! Hopefully this page demonstrates some of the layout advantages of using tables. (even within GuideML). Maybe you think it sucks, either way let me know what you think.

Final Fantasy 7,8,9
If you have a few hundred hours free nothing fills the time better than these games.

Fossil Fueled Money Pits
Perhaps better known as cars. I cannot help it I am a self-confessed Petrol Head. My condition was also not improved by the purchase of a 1.1 Fiat to replace the Lancia 2 litre Turbo I had before.

Climbing
This is still here despite my recent inability to find the time to cling limpet like to some suitable chunk of mountain. Even though the current size of my arse may cause problems to my previously well placed centre of gravity I intend to reattach my self to some rocks soon.

Iain Banks (with or without the M)
When it comes to bearded Scottish fella's writing about massive space craft and AI's there is no one better. When it comes to bearded Scottish fella's writing about any other subject he is still pretty hard to beat. In fact even if you remove the beard, Scottish ancestry and sex from the equation he is still not a bad choice.

The Internet
But not for the usual reasons. If not for the Internet I would probably still be a milkman and not, as it happens, the Information Systems Director of a Web Solutions company. Funny the way things work out.

Burger King burgers

Cats

The Tabloid Press
Scum sucking pieces of t**d the lot of them. Sadly the best words to describe this bunch of effluent spreaders would probably result in the moderators shutting this page down.

Rovers
Last year during one of Rover's more publicised bout of problems I read that they thought they had a problem as they didn't have an identifiable market. Yes they do! All Rovers are owned by geriatrics who get scared at speeds above that of continental drift. Going round corners at more than 5mph hour is just out of the question as that will dislodge the flat-cap they have placed on the parcel shelf to indicate their support of the tweed god - patron saint of slow moving objects.

Caravans
How did an idea like the caravan ever shuffle its two wonky wheels off the drawing board? Spend a few thousand pounds on something that you can use for 4 weeks as a mobile road block and then stick on your front drive when you are not using it, to turn green, annoy your neighbours and block out the sun. Fantastic!

Broad generalisations
Which is why I except that all my comments above are subject to exceptions... maybe.

Trying to learn another language
I am currently struggling to get to grips with Italian. My girlfriend is Italian and if I am ever to get on with her parents (who don't speak English) it is a must. But no matter what I try nothing other than pointless phrases stick in my head. How come quadratic equation formulas remain with me 10 years after I last used them and yet the only Italian I can remember from one day to the next is the Italian for 'Your mother was a hamster and your father smells of elderberries'?

McDonald's burgers

Dogs