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Losing Your Cookies
Slightly annoying – my PC crashed, and as a consequence, it seems to have lost all my cookies. Now do I try to get into this Fightbox thing?
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Losing Your Cookies
Slightly annoying – my PC crashed, and as a consequence, it seems to have lost all my cookies. Now do I try to get into this Fightbox thing?
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Shortest Night
Last night I went along to a BBC Four screening of a series of short films. The enterprise is called Shortest Night, and in about three weeks, BBC Four will seemingly be showing these and many others on, what is, the shortest night of the year. Somehow, I think Swedes will be otherwise occupied on…
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Matrix Reloaded
So I got to go to the (UK) premiere of this last night. The tickets said that doors open at 6.30 and that everyone should be seated by 7.30. We arrived at 7.00 in torrential rain. I can honestly say that I haven’t seen quite as big a premiere as this previously in Leicester Square.…
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The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
I got hold of this book after hearing it’s author Greg Palast speaking on the Simon Mayo programme on Radio Five Live. I suppose he’s a slightly more literary Michael Moore. The book is written in the same freewheeling style, but there’s just a little bit more depth. Sometimes he’s a little off the mark…
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The Essential Spike Milligan
I got this at work, and was really only reading it, as I had no other books to hand and wanted something to read. I fairly raced through it, but must admit that I skipped entire extracts. I suppose that I’ve never really got The Goons, so complete scripts of various episodes make fairly hard…
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BBC Big Read Top 100
Well the BBC’s top 100 books have been published, and they’re a bit disappointing. Harry Potter’s there in abundance – surely it should be counted as one book like Lord of the Rings? Then there are books like Animal Farm which are evidently books people read at school for O Level or GCSE. And of…
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Murakami
Nice big piece in today’s Guardian Review about the phenomenom that is Haruki Murakami.
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My Route To Work
Well I’ve been trying something different this week. I can save a third on my travel costs if I get an overground only train ticket. That means that I have to travel in to Kings Cross, and head off on foot, but this has a bonus of being some actual exercise – with a half…
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The Best A Man Can Get
This book is extremely popular in medialand, a bit like E. And also like E, it had been sitting on my bookshelf for quite some time. I only really picked it up because it was the morning after our party at work, and my bag was still at work. As it turns out, it was…
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Guantanamo Bay
As we learn that the Americans have caputered Tariq Aziz, the Iraqi deputy prime minister, we must begin to wonder where in the world he’s likely to be held. And Guantanamo Bay seems the likeliest destination. The front page of this morning’s Guardian carries a report that the Americans are shamefully holding children they captured…
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Sugar
Well I used a tablespoon and a half of it today in my (very successful) first attempt at breadmaking, but I need to ensure that I don’t let sugar exceed 10% of my diet according to a new report published jointly by the WHO and the FAO. This report has incensed the US sugar industry…
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Yellowface/All The Lovers In The Night
Yellowface by R F Kuang I first came across R F Kuang with last year’s very enjoyable Babel, an alternate history of the British Empire told in a world where magic exists and is controlled by an elite group of individuals. Yellowface is very different, but no less enjoyable. It’s a book about books, and…
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