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Holidays and Kindles redux

I got back from holiday yesterday. I was away more than two weeks and the only reading matter I had on me was my new Kindle (a Kindle 2). So, how did that work out for me? I posted my … Continue reading

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Holidays and Kindles

I’ve recently received one of the new next generation Kindles (Kindle 2 I think they’re called, though I could be confusing models). It’s £109 from Amazon UK and wifi but not 3g enabled. There are 3g versions, I just didn’t … Continue reading

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Dude, where’s my theme?

Well, I go away for the weekend and when I get back my theme’s changed. I wonder what happened. I’ve now put a new theme in place and deleted the one that was substituted somehow for my previous one. Was … Continue reading

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Laptop outage

Hi all, My laptop’s down at the moment, and may be so for a little while. That may mean updates have to come from my work computer, which takes a little longer and which won’t be happening anyway until the … Continue reading

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Normal service will be resumed

Just a quick update to say that I’m closing a transaction at work at the moment, which has meant not a lot of reading (or time online generally) this past fortnight. All going well, normal service and posting should resume … Continue reading

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Jean-Euphèle Milcé alive and well

Pushkin Press posted this on facebook, and I thought I’d repeat it here in case it was of interest: Pushkin Press is relieved to announce that Jean-Euphele MILCE has survived the earthquake in Port-au-Prince. We do not know what his … Continue reading

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Test post, please disregard

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Interregnum

Just a quick update to say that I’m going to be offline for the month of September, and it’s very unlikely I’ll be able to update my blog until my return. I’ll have Tan Twan Eng’s The Gift of Rain … Continue reading

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Of Love and Hunger

Originally posted June 2008. This post is a test really, to see how the software works. I intend to use this blog as a record primarily of what I read, and what I think of it. Comments on films and … Continue reading

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Take two

Annoyingly I’ve had to delete my blog and repost the whole thing, which sadly means I’ve lost all my comments. Irritating. The problem was that somehow it all got linked without my request to an old gmail account of mine … Continue reading

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