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AKICILJ - does anyone recognise this book?
An acquaintance is trying to find a book he read some time ago. He thinks it was published in the early 90s and that it was the author's first published novel. It features:
- widespread desertification as a result of climate change
- World War III results from that, as Africa & the Middle East invade Europe
- aliens appear and do inexplicable things (they ( Read more... )
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NHS
I might not have been online much in the past couple of weeks, but that doesn't mean I haven't heard some of the grotesque rubbish coming out of the USA about the NHS. You try to ignore it, but the stupid seems to seep through. Of course, the NHS is not perfect; what large organisation is? It certainly wasn't helped by Thatcher's determination to ( Read more... ) -
Not a happy camper
It seems there are evil plans afoot to develop (or, in other words, totally wreck) Otago Lane.
Lost for words.... Well, printable ones. To do justice to what I am thinking, I would have to invent new swearies....
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Satellite 2
I seem to have been pretty much hibernating since the end of Satellite 2. The Dead Dog ended when we left after 1am on Monday morning, I got back and slept for a while, waking up at some point (there was daylight) to snaffle some food and then crawled back into bed. Yesterday, woke up early, got up and had breakfast then crawled back into bed... ( Read more... ) -
T minus 2 days
Two days to go until Satellite 2; I was digging out something for the con last night and came across my folder from Satellite 1, with my notes for the closing ceremony at the top. (Most of the notes are on the lines of Thank X.) That was a good day; I expect Satellite 2 to be much better.
I think I am almost back at where I wanted to be this week ( Read more... ) -
T minus 4 days
It's 4 days until Satellite 2, which is definitely going to be the best con in Scotland this year! Latest news is Ken MacLeod is definitely coming; he was the GoH at Satellite 1, and frankly the sort of GoH a concom dreams of, really throwing himself into it. He'll probably be having a deservedly more relaxed con this time. It's good to see him ( Read more... ) -
Satellite 2 programme online
The Satellite 2 programme is now online. There's still a few days left to join at the pre-con rate, by the way, so if you haven't already joined....
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This neighbourhood's going downhill
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8088381.stm
[ETA: Not a lot more to say about that. From a very cursory reading of the news, it seems likely that this results from a slump in the Labour vote rather than a rise in the BNP vote. Labour voters do seem to just not vote when pissed off with their party rather than voting for anyone else. But even ( Read more... )
