Charles on… anything that comes along

OK, it’s probably the only job (certainly the only one I could think of) that would pull me back from freelancing, which has been hugely enjoyable.

But anyhow, from late November, I’m going to be taking over the editing of the Guardian’s Technology supplement. (The blog is here.)

Yes, I’m sure everyone wants to know in fine detail how it’s going to change. I’d rather get my feet under the desk first. It’s already had one radical change - with the redesign - so this is hardly the time to go mad. One obvious thing to say: no plans for any personnel changes.

But of course if you’d like to suggest what it should have more (or less) of, feel free. Comments are open.

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So says the intriguingly-monikered Bourgeois Wife, who went to the Frieze Art exho and saw

One girl had attached a fox tail to the back of her jeans and I’m coveting one badly. The only other person I’ve seen with one is Alison Goldfrapp, who wore a horse tail on the back of a leotard to Glastonbury which was, again, great. Unfortunately the only ones on Ebay are real, which is a bore. Should anyone happen to have a fake fox tail lying about, I will pay good money…

I once has a tiger tail, but it was just a little fake thing one got as an Esso promotion. I had it when I was 5. Heaven knows where it is now - if not in fake tiger tail heaven, then probably on eBay.

Already an interesting read (and she’s got a photo of La Goldfrapp with tail). Enjoy.

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Over at The Register (actually, there for a while, but I’ve been busy) is the tale of how all the phantom withdrawals in the 80s and 90s weren’t phantom at all - but how the high street banks couldn’t admit that, and had to insist that their systems were infallible and that everyone was either lying or had left their PIN inscribed on cash machines, along with copies of their cards.

Not the most sustainable argument, of course.

It’s a long read, but interesting. And Alistair Kelman, the protagonist, asks me to point out that there is one inaccuracy: he got £450 per hour, not the £1,750 that I somehow put in. Blame the bumpy train ride when I was transcribing.

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