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Now I know how bad And Another Thing actually is
I've finally read it, from the local library (all automated, except when the RFID tags are broken). And it's not good. I've reviewed it here.
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How bad is And Another Thing really?
We've been listening to And Another Thing (Hitchhiker book 6 by Eoin Colfer) recorded when it was serialised on Radio 4's book at bedtime back in October. That it's taken us almost 2 months to listen to 10 fifteen minute episodes is a symptom of our growing lack of enthusiasm. Neither of us laughed once, and the way that Colfer got out of the ( Read more... ) -
Spotify free version
I thought I'd like to try out Spotify, and so headed to spotify.com to sign up for the free service. I don't really want to pay the monthly fee until I'm happy it works with the way I want to listen to music (whatever that is - moving to a service like this rather than relying on my own collection of CDs and MP3s is likely to change how I do so). ( Read more... ) -
The Loop
Listened to The Loop last night, Radio 4's afternoon play from Wednesday 18th Nov. It's a pretty good (and funny) tribute to The Twilight Zone, about someone writing a play for Radio 4 while looking after a 4 year old. The boy's playing with the phone puts him through to a (fictional) writer getting started on The Twilight Zone season 1, 50 years ( Read more... ) -
Job front looking up
I've got six extra days paid work for May, taking me up to just over half my usual hours (and pay). It's revision of some software I wrote about a decade ago, and I finally get to jettison the stupid database structure which was forced on me at the time so that it'll work properly and be movable to MySQL, which the owners of the site want to do ( Read more... ) -
Radio Times Top 20 SF TV Shows (in 21-28 July issue)
I thought this was a pretty good list, particularly if you ignore the rankings. I'd have wanted to include Firefly instead of Torchwood, which wouldn't even make my list of top twenty spinoff SF TV shows (I might list it before K9, though, or that children's spinoff from earlier this year about Sarah Jane Smith). I'd have put in Dark Angel - not ( Read more... ) -
Dr Who Brings New Vistor to Our Garden
We were watching Dr Who on Saturday night when suddenly a small bird seemed to fall out of the sky on the edge of our patio, only about 8 feet away from where we were sitting.(You need to know that our TV is just to one side of the French windows onto our back garden.) This was immediately followed by a magnificent peregrine falcon, which pounced ( Read more... ) -
Post modern 419 scam
I got a scam email yesterday which is a variant on the 419 advance fee scam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_fee_fraud) new to me. Instead of describing money from the oil industry, it invited the recipient, as a victim of an earlier 419 scam, to recover the money ( Read more... ) -
ubuntu update to feisty - no problems this time round
My desktop machine has now been updated to feisty fawn (which is a stupid name, but their you are). It's already been updated once, to edgy eft, and that time round there were three serious problems ( Read more... ) -
Top 5 Plays of the 20th Century
In response to http://brixtonbrood.livejournal.com/61013.html. Only two Nobel Prize winners, and a list that I was quite surprised to end up with. It shows a certain preference for funny plays with clever ideas; I can't imagine wanting to go so see many that don't fit into this category ( Read more... )