John Irving

John Irving, who wrote A Prayer for Owen Meany, which is looking like it is going to be my next read, gets a brilliant write-up from the incomparable John Self here. If I like APfOM, it looks like I’ll have to invest in The World According to Garp and The Cider House Rules as well. … Keep reading

Top ‘eCouncils’

From The Guardian‘s Online supplement: Top eCouncils Oldham Borough Council’s website is the best-performing local government site, according to automated testing by SiteMorse. The result is an average of tests based on the Web Accessibility Initiative, including responsiveness, error-free operation, HTML standards compliance and accessibility. Oldham attributes its success to Steria’s fine tuning of its … Keep reading

New Look

You may or may not have noticed a new look for the site. The standard one that comes with WordPress is hardly inspiring, so a quick search of the WP Forums came up with Alex King‘s site. On this page he ran a competition to see who could design the best template style for WordPress. … Keep reading

Reality Reading update

A Prayer for Owen Meany 58% [ 7 ] The Great Gatsby 41% [ 5 ] Alma Cogan 0% [ 0 ] Status Anxiety 0% [ 0 ] The Unfortunates 0% [ 0 ] Total Votes : 12 It’s looking very much like a two-horse race at the moment. Good news because I fancied having … Keep reading

Sick bucket at the ready…

Behold the waves of nausea which wash over you when you visit the wonderful website that is Thank You Tony. Thanks to Iain Dale for the link.