An online notebook
An online notebook
Marvellous piece on the background of Sarah Palin by Jonathan Raban in this fortnight’s London Review of Books: What is most striking about her is that she seems perfectly untroubled by either curiosity or the usual processes of thought. When…
I’m reading the marvellous The Atlantic Ocean by Andrew O’Hagan at the moment. It’s a collection of essays, mostly taken from The London Review of Books and is a wonderful eclectic collection of writing. Take this little gem, for example,…
I’ve been using Peformancing for FireFox, shortly to be rebranded as ScribeFire, for my last few posts on hyprtext, and my initial impressions are pretty good. It certainly fills the gap left when my switch to Ubuntu meant I could…
Ask have launched a preview of their new search page design, nominally called AskX. Appearing in a three column layout, which is similar to their AskCity product, it now displays results from other information sources inthe right hand section, as…
The one blog post I have written which got the most attention was on my old blog, called ‘My Ten Thoughts on Successful Blogging’. It received quite a few links and comments, and it was pretty clear that I had…
A poem from today’s Guardian Review by Rowan Williams: Advent Calendar He will come like last leaf’s fall.One night when the November windhas flayed the trees to bone, and earthwakes choking on the mould,the soft shroud’s folding. He will come…
I have started a visual book list. Looks quite nice, though the numbers of unfinished books worries me slightly. Will get round to writing little reviews at some point for each one.
Having been playing and thinking about the new Google Desktop Search, and specifically its new sidebar form, I have the following few thoughts. Firstly, like all Google innovations, it’s US only at the moment, content wise. This means that the…
The BBC are running a trial offering some of their radio programmes as downloads, effectively making them podcasts. Might give this a go for some of the more interesting stuff. Mark Kermode‘s film reviews might well become a regular listen.
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.