It’s suddenly occurred to me that today is the first of July. Which means that I’ve been throwing words at the screen which have occasionally been falling into some semblance of order and manifesting themselves as blog posts on this site for five years.

Five fucking years.

Ouch.

The archives on the left are not a complete set of everything that’s ever been written here. There have been a couple of hiatusessees and for a long time, I only had what was there from the reboot back in, um, 2005 I guess. (Yup - four month hiatus from Nov 04 to Mar 05, most of which you spent in and out of hospital. Ed.) I restored the previous two years a few months ago although not in their entirety as a lot of the highly personal stuff (of which there was quite a lot back then for one reason or another) was culled to concentrate on, well, less personal topics.

While I was browsing the archives (primarily to see what I wrote about Ang Lee’s Hulk form 5 years ago), I noticed an interesting post I wrote as some thoughts I had after another entertaining episode of Spooks. It was very much a train of thought post about terrorism and the possibility of a terrorist attack in London. In particular I mentioned the fear of somethng akin to the Sarin gas attack on the Japanese subway but happening on the London tube instead. The date of that post was 8th July 2003 - two years almost to the day before the London tube was actually attacked. That was a spooky coincidence.

So here we are: Tabula Rasa, aka headCleaner() v3.0. Formerly known as Simon Pegg’s Stalker, formerly known as headCleaner(). Still going after all this time and I ain’t about to shut up now.