Having learned to read at the age of 3 and to write soon after, my education was complete.  All other attempts to inculcate in me some other useful life skills, such as numeracy, discrimination, taste, tact and restraint, failed.  After a misspent youth failing to get a degree in linguistics (yes, I know, it’s not rocket science), a succession of appalling jobs, writing mostly pointless policy documents, thickheaded policy analyses, and just plain spin and flim-flam, has sucked most of the life out of me.  Although one job did allow me to go boating on sewage lagoons.  That was fun.

Hobbies are watching the development of scientific jargon (try accelerator physics - it’s a growth area), using brutal methods to train bureaucrats to say ‘about’ instead of ‘regarding’, and the Liberal Party.  Oh, and maintaining my status as a fully paid up lardarse and glutton.  And neglecting my blog.