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EBook Pricing – my yearly brain dump
So, yet again the wonders of ebook pricing have built up in my brain meats and need to be expunged, lest they cause my eyes to bleed any further. This is partly inspired by reading shouty arguments on CNet talking about the rights of Amazon buyers to give 1-star reviews to ebooks they consider expensive […]
Posted: April 12th, 2011 under blog.
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Head Wound
Hello, and thankyou for coming in today. Before we start I’d just like to point out that my current facial state isn’t normal. I would have worn a hat, but in the current surroundings I felt that would raise more questions than a brief explanation at the beginning of this interview would. So, my fairly […]
Posted: February 20th, 2011 under blog.
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Books 2010
57 books read this year, so up 12 on last year. And, as usual, some stats: Graphic novels: 22 (otherwise excluded from here-on) ‘Proper’ books: 35 Paperbacks: 14 Hardbacks: 3 Ebooks: 18 Of which were on the Kindle: 14 Of which were read on my new Kindle since September: 10 So, almost half the books […]
Posted: January 3rd, 2011 under blog.
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Film 2010
…and not the god awful screen rendered turd with Claudia Winkleman. I saw 10 minutes of it and decided that if I ever have the chance I will run a bulk eraser over the stacks of hard drives that they use to store the master recordings for the good of mankind.Watch Full Movie Online Streaming […]
Posted: January 3rd, 2011 under blog.
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Movember
As I already posted (in overly effusive and probably annoying style) over on my booze blog I have decided to take part in the joys of Movember this year – growing a moustache for November in aid of men’s health charities in general and prostate cancer charities specifically. My approach to it is slightly different […]
Posted: October 31st, 2010 under blog.
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Edinburgh Festival 2010
I done went to Edinburgh, as has been my wont on occasion over the last few years. Yet again I went to the festival and stayed in the excellently located flat with the wonderfully uncomfortable beds that I have the last couple of visits, and I went to see many things. I was also good […]
Posted: September 5th, 2010 under blog.
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NomNomNom – The Votening
Hello lovely people. As I posted the other day the NomNomNom 2010 voting is now open and you can be lovely (see opening sentence of this post) and vote for my team! Strange hand position due to a large gooseberry stain on my shirt Voting for me and Melanie (The Tarragons of Virtue) is good […]
Posted: July 28th, 2010 under blog.
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NomNomNom – Stuffed Loin of Pork
As I posted a couple of weeks back, I decided to do NomNomNom again, this time teamed up with Melanie Seasons of OmNomLondon. When discussing the division of labour for the day we decided that I would be entrusted with the burning of meat to make our centre piece and after some researching around on […]
Posted: July 24th, 2010 under blog.
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Karaoke Circus at the 100 Club
Another pair of months has past and another Karaoke Circus has been and gone. This time it was slightly different from the last couple as it was a) at the 100 Club and b) featured the Mystery Fax Machine Orchestra in its quite wide expanse – they filled most of the width of the 100 […]
Posted: July 1st, 2010 under blog, photoblog.
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NomNomNom 2010
A year has passed and I’ve managed to yet again inveigle myself into the realms of the food bloggers of London – for the second year running I’m in the finals for NomNomNom. NomNomNom is, quite simply, a cooking competition for bloggery types. You turn up at The Cookery School on the chosen day, dump […]
Posted: June 24th, 2010 under blog.
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