The book in which I was reading about Patti Smith is The Long-Player Goodbye” by Travis Elborough – the the sub-title “The album from vinyl to iPod and back again”. I finished it this week, and the reading of it got a bit spooky at times.
Entries from January 18th, 2009
MPs’ earnings revisited
January 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Politics
I do not make a habit of responding to comments in one post by creating a new one, but in this case I thought I would following the sudden outbreak of discussion in an old post from 2007. The post was about the earnings of MPs and I think it is worth re-visiting because of […]
Tags: Greed
Gravatars
January 18th, 2009 · Comments Off on Gravatars · Technology
One of the few visible changes resulting from my upgrade to WordPress 2.7 is that gravatars are now enabled here. They are supposed to show up in the ‘recent comments’ box but they don’t, and that is something I have to look into, but they are showing up in the comments of individual posts – […]
Double books
January 18th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Life
In Waterstones yesterday I saw a double book. Very confusing. It was a combination of Mark Gatiss’ first two Lucifer Box novels. Looks like a normal book but when you turn it over to look at the back there is there is the front cover of another book.  So it has two fronts instead of […]
Tags: Books
