Archive for September, 2004

Susanna Clarke

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004

Its finally in my hands. No, not that, the first novel by Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. I can’t tell you what its like though, apart from large, black and heavy, as I’m not reading this copy. This is “One of One Thousand four hundred and fifty slipcased, numbered and […]

Morning Morrissey Moment

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004

Since Jonathan Ross is doing Wogan’s usual slot on Radio 2 breakfast I thought I’d tune in. The first song they introduce is the new Morrissey track, Let Me Kiss You. It turns out that I really quite liked it which came as a bit of a shock; perhaps I’ll have to check […]

More Hitchhikers

Tuesday, September 21st, 2004

Listen on radio 4 at 6:30.
Play game here. Yes, that one.

Whose side are you on?

Tuesday, September 21st, 2004

It appears that some big names are finally stepping up to challenge the rather stupidly sweeping bill (Induce Act) proposed by the Recording Industry Assn. of America and the Motion Picture Assn. of America. In this letter (PDF) more than 40 companies and organisations such as CNET Networks, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Google, Intel, […]

New books

Tuesday, September 14th, 2004

I have no idea when I’m going to have time to read through the stack of things on my “to read” pile. But that hasn’t stopped me buying yet more books to keep it topped up. Today saw the arrival of Light by M.John Harrison, The Scar by China Mieville and The Day […]


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