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Not a post about failing to catch up with correspondence.
Those of you with reasonably intact memories, and exceedingly dull lives, may recall my uncharacteristic enthusiasm regarding the scanning and uploading (in convenient PDF) of The Usborne Book of the Future*, a robot-riddled hardback volume of, ultimately, contemptible inaccuracy which brought me oodles of joy and happy expectation as a wide-eyed, ( Read more... ) -
There are many here among us now who think that life is but a joke.
THE CLEARING HOUSE
A 2-to-Quango Online Novel
Monday 08:19
Angela was giving her crosscut document shredder some grief when I knocked on her door.
“The blades are misaligned,” she muttered, poking at the grey plastic innards with a screwdriver. For the second time that day, I was struck by the general wonkiness of our working ( Read more... ) -
If you don't believe you owe it to yourself, you can owe it to me.
THE CLEARING HOUSE
A 2-to-Quango Online Novel
Monday 08:02
The conference rooms on each floor of the building must’ve looked good on paper at the design stage. Too good, in all probability, because their realization coincided with the final cost-cutting push of the outgoing Conservative administration in ’97, and the young Turks of the New ( Read more... ) -
Let's manage our assets, and grow up later.
THE CLEARING HOUSE
A 2-to-Quango Online Novel
Monday 07:41.
The kitchen on the fourth floor. A transplanted oasis of domestic reassurance and retreat, provided that your own home is schizophrenically both clinical and ramshackle, features a mini LEC refrigerator permanently stocked with Marks and Spencer shepherd’s pies, a Russell Hobbs four- ( Read more... ) -
You really shouldn't care, even when you do.
THE CLEARING HOUSE
A 2-to-Quango Online Novel
Monday 07:09.
“Where is it you work again?” She was leaning against the kitchen door when I came out of the bathroom. Please don’t straighten my tie, I thought. It’s way too soon for that level of familiarity.
“Westminster. Five minute walk from the Tube station.” I nodded towards the ( Read more... ) -
Story's in the URL...
...and it's got a very happy ending:
http://www.tgdaily.com/000/48348-british-library-releases-thousands-of-free-e-books -
Oh dear. Haven't heard these since the early 1980s. They'll probably sound utterly wretched now.
Marvin the Paranoid Android's (s)hit singles ( Read more... ) -
Do you take this Blackberry? (To the altar with you.)
Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSkT5XykJzo
What's the betting that he's wearing one of those "I'm blogging this!" t-shirts underneath the monkey suit?
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Other Stuff: Erik van Ommeren of Sogeti (check out the downloads section of ( Read more... ) -
Muso feed plug.
I added Digital Meltdown (digimeltd0wn) to the LJ feeds a few weeks ago, but didn't make a lot of fuss about it at the time. Since then, however, the vinyl reclamation blog project has consistently offered up fantastic opportunities to grab digital rips and encodings of some otherwise impossible-to-get rarities ( Read more... )
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