Geeklawyer is vastly proud to announce his new coblogger - Becky Hogge of the Open Rights Group.
Geeklawyer maybe an IP heavyweight but even heavyweights need heavyweight support and Becky promises to bring a degree of intellectual rigor absent heretobefore. Indeed she has already humiliated Geeklawyer in her first podcast - a feat lightweight Ruthie could only ever have dreamed of 
Listen to it here:
That phrase...
I would like to be the first to say “welcome becky”. I hope you can keep Geekie on his toes. He needs a good firm handling at times.
I wish you much luck.
(Geeklawyer, will Becky have her own page on the blog, the whole “about” section?)
Becky isn’t going to be a regular poster I suspect, more of an occasional contributor than a co-blogger. Which is great for me ‘cos the last thing I need is another damed nag.
I hope that she will do an ‘about’ page.
And no Mary I am not going to allow Becky to form a fan club - I have had enough disloyalty from you, thank you very much
I am hurt, dearest Geeklawyer, hurt that you could say that I prefer Ruthie over you.
I’m glad you have a new co-blogger. It’s nice to have a woman’s touch to such a manly blog.
[still not happy with this very complex spam protection of yours… I had to pull out my abacus for it this time]
bah! Call yourself an accountant?! no wonder Airmiles is going to the dogs.
I have a new spam protection in mind that I am coding now. It is a series of hardcore porn images and you have to supply the right description to match the image: “dogging”, “anal sex”, “BDSM” “Edwina Curry Orgy”.
I should get a lot more readers too but none of them will be interested in the blog. I’m looking for beta testers.
That picture of Becky smoking, clearly indoors in a public space, is pretty cool. She could be the poster girl of the pro-smoking lobby. Would she like to feature in the Ruthie calendar 2008?
Oh yea she is completely breaking the law - as a rebel I’m sure she’d love to head up the “Its My Right to Get Cancer” lobby group.
Whether she’d want to be on the calendar is a different issue - if they weren’t in the photo studio together that’d be fine - but otherwise the fur might fly. And Becky is as mean as hell; Ruthie wouldn’t stand a chance.
Oh no GL, we won’t fight. Except maybe over you. In your dreams.
My dreams of you end up with me waking screaming and drenched in sweat: terrifying visions of having to have sex with you, and all that wobbling fat, eeesh.
Yeah, fanboy, whats happening about the Ruthie calendar and indeed the Ruthie website? I’m happy for Becky to feature on the calendar, I sure this will only affect sales in a positive way.
Anyone who has seen my site will be aware that I too have a new co-blogger, about to be revealed. No doubt we can run a poll in due course as to who has the sexier co-blogger.
“Who is sexier” ?
Look at the above pics, then look in a mirror and ask the question again. And try not to cry.
I’m glad you have a coblogger even if he is insane. He must be; why else would he blog with you? He doesn’t even have my old excuse since he knows what you are like.
I’m afraid my first act on this blog is going to be to disappoint the readers - I gave up smoking in January. This picture was taken in January 2006 at the Guardian Changing Media Summit, when, readers will remember, smoking in public places was legal (seems like almost yesterday!)
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
Smoking in public was legal back in them days?
What crazy times those were.
Welcome to the lovely Becky. Having kepy up with Machine Envy, I’m looking forward to your contributions here!
Sqmlaw
Oh gawd - please, no fanclubs
Did the word ‘lovely’ indicate fandom? It’s your fault for putting a photo up!
guilty - but with mitigating circumstances …
Is it just me–or is Becky a godamn hippie? Like the smoking bit, though…
It’s just you - shut the fuck up. Becky is smart sassy and will rip the shit out of you
Yeah? Well, I’m ready and headed her way anyway….be she harridan, harpy, hippie, or hyped femme fatale–it just doesn’t matter.
I know her.
Dan: please don’t think that just becuase I’ve got a new co-blogger I don’t love you any more…
Of course you still love me. Just indulging in a bit of manly variation.
She varies greatly.