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With Teletype interface and the Fortran language the computer will be easy to use…. Not quite Google’s hardware from 1999, but close.

For this election’s October surprise?

Oh my God - what a superb end to a fantastic summer! England knock Australia out of the ICC trophy. Bring on the final on Saturday!

Oh… And Ricky? Remember you said this?

“Our fast bowlers have had it over Trescothick for a fair while in both forms of the game. Solanki’s a bit streaky as well. We’ve got some good plans worked out for Strauss, and Vaughan has been in pretty ordinary nick.”

Care to rethink?

No really. Infinite cats, in fact…

Any site that begins… “If we assume Hobbiton at the location of Oxford” has got to be one for me…
Found at waxy.org

Rather unsurprisingly I haven’t been reading an awful lot lately. Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake and Peter Carey’s My Life As A Fake slipped by in those few weeks that, like a fake Christmas Eve, left me going to sleep all excited and waking up all disappointed, until one day it was 4 in the morning and then suddenly I was in hospital. I’ve started reading again now (Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint) though and new reviews will be forthcoming.

To do the two books mentioned above justice would be pretty hard, but Oryx and Crake (as I remember it) was a real page turner - Margaret Atwood at her sci-fi finest. As usual the premise is one of absolute quality and the story telling superb. A judge of a good book is the ending (it’s rare for a book to be great in my opinion if the ending isn’t perfect) and this one doesn’t disappoint. At all.

My Life As A Fake didn’t have quite the same impact. It was a cracking story, but I don’t think I was giving it my entire attention. Perhaps someone else could read it and let me know what I missed as I turned the pages without really concentrating!

50 simple actions for a better world.

Action 43: Grow something with a child. The simple action of watering a seed and watching it grow everyday is strangely addictive and can hold their attention from Playstation’s Metal Donkey Raider 2 for at least ten minutes a day. Which is a start.

Many many numerological fiddlings with 666. Did you know that 666 is the sum of the squares of the first 7 primes?

Covers33 sell professional mailers for posting vinyl, as well as replacement cardboard sleeves, PVC display sleeves and all sorts of other things relating to vinyl/CD/DVD storage and transport. Well useful. Particularly if (as mentioned below) your record collection is going on ebay at the moment.