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Books / February 23, 2009 / John / 1
What an awesome book! Wizard and Glass is the fourth installment of the Dark Tower series and deals, primarily, with an event in the childhood of Roland of Gilead. Not much point in saying any more than that because those familiar with the Dark Tower will already know, and those who aren’t really should read
Books, Music / February 21, 2009 / John / 0
Despite loving music and loving reading, I very rarely do both at the same time. For some reason, though, while sitting on the sofa reading “Wizard and Glass” this morning, I felt an urge to put on “Greetings from Asbury Park N.J.” by the inimitable Mr Springsteen. I wonder if Stephen King was listening to
Books / February 17, 2009 / John / 2
I don’t give up on a book very often. Almost never, in fact. But I just can’t go on with this one. I bought it on spec – I generally don’t read crime novels, but thought I’d give it a go as it’s had pretty good reviews. I just can’t seem to enjoy it –
ACE Lyrics / February 17, 2009 / John / 0
My mama always told me not to look into the eyes of the sun, But mama! That’s where the fun is! “Blinded by the Light” – Manfred Mann’s Earth Band
Ramblings / February 13, 2009 / John / 0
Civilization III Complete. i.e. Civ III with all expansions. Arguably the best version of Civ. For £2.99 on Steam. All of Civ III. £2.99 No need for a play disk. ACEBEST.
ACE Lyrics / February 13, 2009 / John / 0
So the old Rocker gets out his bike to make a ton before he takes his leave. Up on the A1 by Scotch Corner just like it used to be. And as he flies — tears in his eyes — his wind-whipped words echo the final take and he hits the trunk road doing around
Ramblings / February 12, 2009 / John / 1
Ok, so I run fvwm2 and I’m very happy with it. It does absolutely everything I need with no frills, fuss, or bloat. Except I also need to use pidgin as most of our inter-departmental communication is via jabber. Except Pidgin is one of those applications written by the worst kind of code-hacker – the
Books / February 11, 2009 / John / 1
I love it when a book surprises me. It doesn’t happen very often, sadly, but it did with this one. World War Z not only surprised me, but…. well, hang on – let’s back up a bit. From reading the dust cover, you’d think this was an action / horror story. World invaded by zombies, mankind fighting