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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 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'...

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...

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...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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...