An online notebook
Go to a personaliseable (!) version of Google at www.google.com/ig. It’s actually pretty good. You have to log in with your Google ID and password, for example your gmail username, and you can set out various bits of info to have on your screen, as well as the Google search box. The screen is split … Keep reading
Great quote from H.G. Wells in amner’s review of The Island of Dr Moreau by H.G. Wells. An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.
One of the great things about Palimpsest is the way it throws up quality discussions about authors I have never heard of. And it brings together fans of that author that might not otherwise ever get to discuss his (or her) work with a fellow devotee. This happened most recently with Richard Yates. Follow this … Keep reading
Interesting profile of the Austrailian philosopher Peter Singer in last Saturday’s Guardian Review. I remember reading a book of his for an essay on Practical Ethics for A-Level R.E. George W Bush and Peter Singer were born on the same day – July 6 1946. But there the similarity ends. Only one is an Australian … Keep reading
Went camping this weekend in Montford Bridge. Here’s a few photos we took. Comments below each one. Here’s the inside view of the middle living area of our tent. The outside view of our ridiculously large tent. This might well be the bridge that gives Montford Bridge its name.