Due to continued universal application of the Technology Vs. Adam law of 1985, my brief foray into that joyful state where I have a working laptop once again proved to be short-lived. However, I will state that i) I had a most agreeable trip to York earlier this month, where I associated with the finest company the North has to offer and ii) the ( Read more... )

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So last night, me and Ollie went to the English premiere of the Rodriguez/Tarantino double bill “Grindhouse” in Leicester Square (yeah yeah, the constituent parts were released months ago, but it’s never been shown in its entirety over here until now). “Shaun Of The Dead” director Edgar Wright introduced proceedings which was a nice touch, giving ( Read more... )

...how I have so cruelly neglected you! Things are decent enough at the moment; my job's pretty good, although too much of it is sub-Lambeth admin-monkey bollockry for my liking. Still, Scams is a supremely interesting area to work in, and I've been given a few fascinating cases to gather information about- dodgy ticket toutting websites in ( Read more... )

Been so busy recently, had little time to update this! But three things of note:

i) I start my job at the Office of Fair Trade (Scambusters Department) on the 4th December, bustin up' phishers and con-artists in the name of the law. Pimpin'.
ii) I'm gallivanting back York-wards in a fortnight, to bring joy and bakewell-tart-orientated happiness back ( Read more... )

Off to see http://www.myspace.com/thosedancingdays in a moment, but just to say that I've got a new job! I shall reveal more later...if the suspense doesn't kill you, the cyanide capsule I just popped into your tea will. 

I don't know what I've done to enrage the fickle god of technology so much, but the bastard's got me again. After six months of surviving (you can't really call it "'living") without a laptop, we finally managed to fix the multitude of errors on my thrice-cursed hard-drive. Celebrations ensued, champagne was drunk and nubile young virgins were  ( Read more... )

This is a list of the books most often tagged 'unread' on LibraryThing, that is books that people own but have not read. Bold the ones you've read, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (149)
Anna Karenina (132)
Crime and Punishment (121)
Catch-22 (117)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (115)
Wuthering Heights (110)
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If it wasn't for the bafflingly abrupt ending, this might have been my favourite Miyazaki film of them all. Even though his more recent works may be more  meaningful, I keep finding myself more attracted to his earlier, more light-hearted work. It helps that the setting (1920's Italy) is one I have a particular interest in (my dissertation partly ( Read more... )