I’ve been thinking a bit about books lately. Partly because I’ve actually been starting to read them again (I tend to go through phases). I was musing through my bookshelves this evening, and decided to put all the hard backs on one shelf. Nearly all of my books are paperbacks (I’m one of those cheapskates [...]
“Cook book = £20. Ingredients = £10. Getting sacked for ‘accidentally’ releasing the book to the entire planet before it even hits the shelves = PRICELESS!” Thus reads the introduction to the ‘leaked’ new Jamie Oliver cookbook, Naked Chef 2, which goes on to claim that the book was sent out by someone working at [...]
Not sure quite how I feel yet about Giant Leaps, a book about science that the Science Museum has co-produced with The Sun newspaper. It has, however, received all sorts of praise from some high-profile figures, including Buzz Aldrin, Education Secretarty Alan Johnson, Sir David Attenborough, Robert Winston, Sir Patrick Moore, Jon Snow, and – [...]
Fiona and I have been trying to do a bit of a clearout, and as part of that we decided to see if we could get rid of some old academic textbooks, which have been sitting on our shelves pointlessly for a few months (or in my case, a year). As students are only just [...]
The dudes at Robot Co-Op (or ‘coop’ as I sometimes mis-read the URL) have ‘acquired’ the lists of bests website. I didn’t know of the Lists of Bests website before, but I like the tongue-in-cheekness of the announcement: “Yahoo! has been making the news as of late with its acquisitions of all the great Web [...]
Have recently finished reading The Vesuvius Club, a novel by Mark Gatiss, who wrote for and starred in The League of Gentlemen (which I’ve never seen). The book follows the life of an Edwardian-era British spy (who happens to live in Number Nine Downing Street), as he uncovers a mystery that seems him travelling off [...]
Crikey. Have been too busy to have been able to think of much to post here recently, so this will be one of those inward-looking posts that just quickly lets you know what I’m doing at the moment. Have settled in quite nicely to my new flat in South London suburbia. It’s very quiet, but [...]
I thought I’d just quickly give Podcast Con, a UK conference on podcasting, a quick plug, as it looks like a great event. The sign up list is a simple wiki, and it costs £30 pounds, which includes some food. Oh and it’s on Saturday 17 September in London. I’ve already signed up, in fact [...]
Just got back from the bookshop I work at where we opened at midnight to sell the new Harry Potter book. I even wore a cape. It was pretty crazy, we had people queuing out the door – and we’re just a small independent bookshop. All the kids were pretty excitable, having been allowed to [...]
The author of the cool book 101 Things To Do Before You Die Richard Horne (an illistrator) left a comment on one of my previous blog entries that announced my 101 things to do minisite. Richard is apparently ‘inspired’ by my site, so much so that he’s created his own 101 blog. There’s no RSS [...]