On this post I wondered what I should call this blog. I’ve stuck with The Closed Circle – from the recent Jonathan Coe novel – which was the name of my previous Blogger effort. It is, at least, suitably vague.…

The journalist and occasional Tory politician Boris Johnson yesterday posted the following on his blog: January 19, 2005 Calling /attention all bloggers It’s quarter to four and I’ve got to write a column. which shall I do? Any ideas 1.…

Feedreader worked perfectly last night, but when I booted up this morning to check my feeds, it hung twice. Annoyed, I uninstalled it. I then tried the commercial alternative, FeedDemon from Bradsoft. I have a 20 day trial before coughing…

Feedreader is an offline RSS feed reader (duh…) which means you can log on, spend a couple of minutes downloading messages and then read them at your leisure. It’s free! Excellent!

I’m really getting into the whole blogging thing now. Part of this has been my use of Bloglines and the increased number of blogs I’m reading. As I am more exposed to new blogs and new ways of using them,…

Here’s a great new use of a blog to keep an eye on: CrapAuthors.com. It basically tracks the progress of a whole range of writers that the bloggers deem to be of negligible literary value!

Al and I have created the Graham Parsnip blog () as usual with me, using the Blogger system. Parsnip is a spoof science fiction author, who first appeared on Palimpsest () earlier this year. But Al reckons the stuff is…

Well, this is the first post to my website. I’ll hopefully be posting plenty of messages to the site, mainly about books but sometimes about politics and computers too. Maybe the odd excerpt from my life, now and again. hopefully…