So now I am 50 and someone asked how I felt: Oh about 50-50?
 
No seriously - I feel I am now in the real grey haired brigade - I should relax - be a sage advisor. But I can stop being full of enthusiasm and life for the work I do.
 
I just hope it doesn't change me.
 
I pleased that at least I am old enough to see Meryl Streep in "Thatcher" - because it is not suitable for minors.

We know now a raft of people who abuse the benefits system by owning foreign assets, but don't declare them when applying for housing or income support in the UK. These assets give them income but they still get the full support of the state.
 
While, we have no foreign assets, earn just the income from our job here and have no access to any benefits. It seems the UK does not look after its own but looks after the interests of foreign persons or businesses.
 

Is that a light at the end of the tunnel or is it just a LED?
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On the 23rd May, I am running a BCS (British Computer Society) forum/seminar in London in the evening 6pm for a couple of hours. The capacity of the meeting will be 150 people - and I suspect it will be packed out.
 
I have invited David Leigh, the Guardian journalist who is also professor of reporting and journalism at City University. He was instrumental in providing a conduit for the main press through the Guardian and the New York Times. He has recently published a book on Wikileaks through the Guardian.