Would any kind person out there have a copy of last Friday’s Green Wing on video they could lend me? I had an accidental-taping-over-disaster before we had watched it.
Other formats are acceptable too, of course.
Thanks.
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New website, blog
2006-03-17 – 20:57:00
I’ve had the devilgate.org domain for nearly two years, now. But it has taken me this long to actually start using it for more than a source of throwaway email addresses.At last, though, I’ve put some readable stuff up there. So far it’s just a main page and a blog. In time, […]
The Many-Angled Pub
2006-03-03 – 16:11:00
I went out for a drink with some people from work last night. We went to a place in Covent Garden called The Porterhouse.It’s a very curious place. It extends across three or maybe four floors. Or maybe only two, but with lots of mezzanines. It’s full of alcoves: everything, it seems, is an alcove. […]
Book Notes 5: Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
2006-03-03 – 13:00:00
I read a review of this book in The Guardian years ago (this one, I think). It sounded absolutely fantastic, and I’ve wanted to read it ever since. But I only got round to buying it recently.
I was aware, of course, of the danger of approaching a work with unreasonably-raised expectations, so I […]
A discussion of (possibly a rant about) ID
2006-02-23 – 13:30:00
But not cards, for a change. I was listening to a programme (essentially a religious one) on Radio 4 recently, about ‘Intelligent’ Design (ID).It was the second time that day that I had heard SETI pulled in to support ID. The thesis seems to be that, since SETI searches for meaningful information hidden […]
Book Notes 4: American Gods by Neil Gaiman
2006-02-22 – 13:59:00
I’ve been reading Neil Gaiman’s blog since the time when he was writing this book — as, I’m sure, have most of us, what with his site being the number one hit on Google when you search for ‘neil’.
But I hadn’t actually read the book until now. I had read the first chapter […]
That about wraps it up for freedom
2006-02-13 – 22:50:00
Start saying goodbye, then, to civil liberties in this country. Oh, maybe not now, and maybe not even that soon; but when the identity cards bill is passed, and the database has been built 1 then the infrastructure will be in place for the world’s largest ever experiment in social control.
We already have near-ubiquitous […]
Drink, Sex and Elections
2006-02-10 – 13:42:00
How quickly do events overrun the tardy blogger. A few weks ago, when Charles Kennedy went public about his drinking, I started writing a piece about him, and his revelations’ potential effect on the Liberal Democrats. I didn’t post it that day, and by the following evening things had changed so dramatically that what I […]
Book Notes 3: Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow
2006-02-07 – 23:13:00
Cory Doctorow’s third novel is his best so far; and it’s strange. Really, really strange.It is the story of a man whose father is a mountain and whose mother is a washing machine. These are not metaphors.
Book Notes 2: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
2006-01-25 – 13:43:00
Yes, and only a day after the last one. It took me a bit longer than that to read it, mind you.A science-fiction book that was nominated for the Booker: amazing. And have no doubt about it: this is a science-fiction book. Just as Nineteen Eighty Four is; and Orwell’s masterpiece is perhaps […]