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Sunday, June 30, 2013

jew cannot be serious

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Really tremendous work from Rabbi Jonathan Sacks this week in The Spectator , as befits the de facto spokesman for non-scary secular-ish Ju...

headline of the day

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Here's one in the Daily Mail today: Well. We've all been there, haven't we? I myself had a lamb and mung bean curry last n...
Monday, June 24, 2013

memory banks

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Just a couple of quickies in the wake (geddit?) of my post on the death of Iain Banks : firstly, this appears to be the last interview he...
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Sunday, June 23, 2013

the last book I read

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Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith. Impulse . Men just can't help acting on it. Least of all Tom Ripley, as we know from ou...
Monday, June 17, 2013

when I hear the words Father's Day, I reach for my gun

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My clever and beautiful daughter, in addition to being a) impossibly cute and b) a frickin' genius, was thoughtful enough to buy me a ni...
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Saturday, June 15, 2013

jura sell

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By way of a tribute to the late Iain Banks , here's a belated look at a couple of bottles of whisky I acquired around Christmas and New ...
Friday, June 14, 2013

short sharpe shock

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This week's other notable (or, to be more accurate, noted by me) literary death was Tom Sharpe . I own eight Sharpe books, though I wo...

banks of scotland

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Sad to hear of the death of Iain Banks this week - something that was clearly going to happen some time in the year or so following his a...
Tuesday, June 11, 2013

watch out for slow-moving heavy intercourse on the M25

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Following on from yesterday's post , another little oddity of the users in UK, servers in Germany set-up is that Bing (like Google) atte...
Monday, June 10, 2013

look at the firmware on that

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At work we've just had a bit of a server rationalisation project, one of the side-effects of which is that our main web servers are now ...
Tuesday, June 04, 2013

god with the wind

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It's the little things that bother you. And I'm not talking about the minuscule size of my genitalia, though I will concede that...

the last book I read

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The Innocent by Ian McEwan. Leonard Marnham is a bit of a nerd, or at least he would be if that word had been invented in 1955. He'...
Thursday, May 23, 2013

the last book I read

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Hunger by Knut Hamsun. So our un-named narrator is an aspiring writer in Oslo (during the 50-year period around the turn of the 20th ce...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013

when the music's over turn out the light

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A couple of musical RIPs to catch up on. Firstly, Richie Havens , who died on April 22nd. I really only encountered Richie Havens and his mu...
Tuesday, May 14, 2013

it's not rocket science

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I caught the second half of The Challenger on BBC2 last night. Interesting stuff , for all that the source material is pretty familiar to ...
Thursday, May 09, 2013

what if you were unable to wake from that dream

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Don't even think about bothering phoning me or ringing the doorbell between 6:20pm and 6:50pm each weekday night, because I will ignore ...
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Monday, May 06, 2013

the last book I read

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Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell. Meet Inspector Kurt Wallander: a tough, uncompromising Swedish cop.  Han spelar inte i boken, men...
Thursday, April 25, 2013

long overjew

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Let's laugh at some Jews. I don't mean in a Holocaust-y kind of way , merely at the ridiculousness of some of their more outlandish ...
Wednesday, April 24, 2013

the last book I read

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Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie. Virginia "Vinnie" Miner is a fiftysomething American academic on her way over to Britain for...
Wednesday, April 17, 2013

good mourning Britain

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Well. What to say about Thatch ? Or, at least, what to say that hasn't already been said, and since I haven't read absolutely ever...
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