Oh dear. My post below appears to have caused offence to the chap I met, and he has taken me to task for it. (I'm away from my pc at the moment and can't link but it's at samizdata: http://www.samizdata.net/blog/ )

Oh dear. My post below appears to have caused offence to the chap I met, and he has taken me to task for it. (I'm away from my pc at the moment and can't link but it's at samizdata: http://www.samizdata.net/blog/ )

First, I'm sorry - I really wasn't intending to be rude, only to make a point about how small talk can be rather odd sometimes. And I'm sorry for not recognising him.

I'm also taken to task for writing 'sent from Blackberry' at the bottom. Oh dear! The techie chaps here only yesterday came up with a means of posting direct by email, and I forgot that my Blackberry emails all have such a signature.

Apparently this makes me pompous. Well, maybe I am. But all it really says is that my techie skills leave something to be desired.

(And guess what: there'll be a similar signature after this post because I haven't got a clue how to remove it!)

Sent via BlackBerry