Dave

Great piece from The Times on Arthur Miller, written by Erica Wagner. Thanks to John Naughton for the link. Why the 20th century was the century of Arthur Miller His dramatisation of the 17th-century Salem witch trials has continuing resonances…

What a terrible shame. ABC News: Playwright Arthur Miller Dies

Transcript of a talk by my favourite living novelist on (one of) my favourite dead novelist(s). Here.

Roy Keane has confirmed that he’ll be retiring when his contract runs out in 18 months’ time. Obviously, as a Forest fan, I’ve followed Keane’s career over the years, and I have to say I have never felt much antipathy…

Well, my trial has finished on FeedDemon, and at the moment I’ve decided not to go ahead and cough up, mainly for one very good reason: BlogLines, which suits me better because it is more portable. If I had a…

Another great column today from Bob Cringely, this time on the subject of the resignation/firing of Carly Fiorina as CEO of Hewlett-Packard. Usually I come up with my own column topics, but sometimes readers simply demand that I write about…

Computer Weekly reports that large companies are being warned off switching to Firefox. The Gartner report said Firefox’s growth, so far, was “unsustainable” as many of the features that had made it popular were primarily aimed at individual users not…

In my absence I have been deluged with comment spam. Comments are now moderated, but I hope to get to them quickly. Not that there are terribly many…

Interesting post on Wikimedia here. Google Inc. has made a proposal to host some of the content of the Wikimedia projects. The terms of the offer are currently being discussed by the board. The developer committee has been informed of…

I haven’t touched this thing for ages. Apologies all round. Have been shockingly busy at work and at home recently, and the PC at home just hasn’t been turned on for days now. Am also neglecting Palimpsest, which is naughty…

Been doing a fair amount of reading today about organisation and suchlike, both personally and for at work. Here’s some of the stuff I have come across. Moleskine notebooks – these seem cool, if pricey. Loads of links about them…

Read this over the weekend. Here’s my review for Palimpsest. So Now Who Do We Vote For? is a 160 odd page ‘book’ from John Harris, erstwhile editor of the excellent but now sadly defunct indie magazine Select and occasional…

Well, I’m back at work now, yesterday’s abortive attempt notwithstanding. I’m also obvious back in the mood to keep this thing updated again, no doubt there was wailing and knashing of teeth the world over at my continued silence…

Over on the Boris blog, the exciting debate continues on the comments section. Someone calling themself ‘Monkey’ commented that: Howard has made several intelligent manouvres in the past few days. Appearing on Talk Sport (the UK’s most popular radio station,…

Not much fro me today – sorry. As if anyone is reading anyway! Have the ‘flu and it’s vile. Okay, probably not the ‘flu. But a very nasty virus. I am at the same time freezing and sweating, which isn’t…

Rosie Originally uploaded by theclosedcircle. Here’s a recent-ish picture of Rosie the rabbit. Okay, so it’s just an excuse to play with Flickr…

From The Register: Crooked Microsoft worker masterminded $7m racket Blimey!

Only at the FA could a DVD be produced of the greatest ever England players – and they neglect to pick a single black player. FA apologises for DVD ‘oversight’

Got paid today and so a pretty good haul was the order of the day in Waterstone’s: The Master – Colm Toibin The Wind-up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Marakami Love, Sex & Tragedy – Simon Goldhill The Remains of the…

According to the Boris Blog, Mr Johnson’s regular column has been dropped from today’s Torygraph in favour of a rather dull piece by Michael Howard trying to justify his dodgy immigration policy, reproduced here in all its swivel-eyed glory because…