The long-lost book...
This isn't a post about a book that I've mislaid, or lent to someone and never got back. This is about a book that I should have written, but didn't. A few months ago I was sorting through some files …
Tagged: literature
Web 2.0 - User Generated Content or garbage?
Some months ago, an Internet Form that I belonged to was taken offline after an internal dispute....and it never came back. The upshot of it was that the content of the forum was no longer available …
The pleasure of the period-piece detective
I think my interest in what might be called 'period piece detectives' started many years ago, when I watched the big screen version of 'Death on the Nile' featuring the wonderful Peter Ustinov as Herc…
Do No Evil - Ursula Le Guin, The Authors Guild and Google
During Google's formative years, the company decided to come up withthe equivalent of a short mission / vision statement that summed up what it was to be Google. After some serious thinking, the slog…
A Merry Christmas to you all!
Business!" cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings o…
Slow and easy does it!
I have a client in Harrogate who I visit every couple of weeks, travelling by train. I went up there a couple of days ago, and as I'd had a particularly hectic couple of days before hand was able to …
Book Review - 'Fantasy Island' by Dan Atkinson and Larry Elliot
No, nothing to do the 1970s TV series with Ricardo Montalban as a bloke who made wishes come true on an Island with a combination of technology, actors and smoke and mirrors. Although..... Nope, thi…
What would George say?
One of the useful spin-offs from the recent (and ongoing purge and tidy) at Pritchard Towers is that every now and again something floats up that makes you think "Whoa, yes, relevant with a capital 'R…
Book Review - 'Mere Christianity'
When I used to commute between work and office I used to do a regular(ish) item on here called 'The Bus Book' in which I reveiwed the book I'd been reading whilst on the commute. One book I intended …
Reflections on "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas"
I read this short story again recently; it's by Ursula Le Guin and is one of the most haunting short stories that I've ever read. The only short story that sticks with me more than this one is Parke …