Hmmm - my first attempt to unlock the HTC Universal brick seems to have been unsuccessful - on inserting a replacement SIM card I was confronted by a 'SIM Lock enter code' menu, which I guess is a bad sign.

Not sure what to do now... I do at least have a loan mobile thanks to the generous djwHints on pay as you go SIMs for Canada also wanted, as I ( Read more... )

There's a lot of news around today about a government claim that the professions are increasingly 'reserved for (the children of) the rich ( Read more... )

As my iPhone is current hors de combat, I am sort of a mobile phone ( Read more... )

I've been looking around for my copy of Peter Watts' Blindsight recently, and can't seem to find it.

I didn't lend it to anyone on here did I?????

Is there a low key state visit of some kind in London at the moment? Over lunch I saw two coach-and-fours with full formal staff accompanied by police escort and a large be-shielded limousine. There were passengers in both coaches, dressed to the nines and clearly enjoying the tour round South Kensington in HRH's coaches.

Any idea who this might

...sitting in an interview room giving a victim statement about being assaulted ( Read more... )

I have a Dreamwidth invite code if anyone is interested...

ETA: Gone to a deserving cause!

First light images and spectra from all three Herschel instruments now available. See:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8143447.stm

and

http://herschelmission.wordpress.com/

A good day for my fiction writing career...

Today I received my first ever copies of a book containing some of my own writing. Today I sold my first book, to a colleague. And today I wrote my first author's signature, in the book my colleague had just bought!

And on Saturday, all things being well, I'll do my first public reading!

Once more the Home Office makes one ashamed of being British ( Read more... )