Has anyone else noticed a problem with Yahoo mail? All my emails except for the most recent ones show up as having no content and no subject when you click on them.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/mar/27/g20-spoof-financial-times-ft

http://ft2020.com

Katy Watson has died. This is a bit of a shock.

In less distressing news, Annie Proulx has been complaining about being sent Brokeback Mountain fanfic... so the Guardian has helpfully followed up by linking to a selection of the "best" such material. (Wouldn't that have been a great journalistic assignment?)

Also, Michael Rosen is on the ball ( Read more... )

I was sent this today AS PART OF MY WORK. Only mine had bigger, better pictures.

Sometimes my job is great.

So, should it go on the front cover of the Journal?

Turned on the radio at random and heard the following quotation, which turns out to be from the Woman's Hour Drama, Sister Agnes Investigates:

"Well, obviously she hasn't killed anyone. She's a LIBRARIAN."

Little do they know the rage and the horror...

Help! I am having a lack-of-popular-culture-knowledge moment and I need to know who this is. Another photo here. I need to be absolutely sure as it's for my magazine (boo to authors who don't label their photos...)

Thanks in advance!

I can truthfully say that I actually AM leaving this benighted, God-forsaken metropolis now. Well, in a couple of months. Good timing, eh?

For more thoughts see the 'music' bit.

I GOT PHD FUNDING YAY YAY YAY ( Read more... )

I'm the new editor of Public Library Journal! This is the leading professional journal covering public library issues. Unlike some other publications of this type it also has a reasonable amount of academic credibility.

Just had the following conversation with a taxi driver:

Me: Can I go to Blackhorse Road, please?
Him: Near Tottenham? How did you end up here?
Me: No Victoria line. Buses would take ages and I have an 11-hour day tomorrow.
Him: An 11-hour day? So, when are you going to become a billionaire?
Me: *laughs hollowly*[1] Oh, I don't think that's very ( Read more... )