Monthly Archives: February 2008

50 Best Crime Novels

Just seen at Bibliobibuli, a long list of reading suggestions for lovers of the crime genre (from the Sunday Telegraph‘s list of top fifty crime writers). I’ve bolded the ones I’ve read. GK Chesterton – The Complete Father Brown (1986) Arthur Conan Doyle – The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) Edgar Allan Poe – The [...]

Techno(t)

There’s this meme going round that’s about technology blind spots, I suppose you’d call them – on popular technologies you don’t do or skills you don’t have. I admit to having occasional attacks of techno lust and have succumbed from time to time (PDA, Tablet, iPod, etc), but such attacks seem to be getting fewer [...]

Book meme

From Angel: Rules: 1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pgs.) 2. Open the book to page 123 3. Find the fifth sentence 4. Post the next three sentences 5. Tag five people I seem to have a few books on my desk at the moment, but the only one that fits [...]