I'll be offline for a week or so, so Merry Christmas to Steve and the random surfers who find this page by accident while surfing for po...

I picked this up second hand a couple of years ago and finally got around to reading it (while waiting for Yellow Blue Tibia to show up from...

So, first we get John Taylor on 40 years of email , and now we have Simon Le Bon heading off into Richard Dawkins country to prove conclusi...

It's late, I should be in bed, but I've got to share this live version of The Piano Has Been Drinking by Tom Waits . It's from t...

Ah, the many ways to ruin an evening's writing! One that afflicts me is the old “Hm, I wonder if there's anything on youtube from......

This is the other book I picked up at the Amnesty International sale for 20p a couple of weeks back. I've been interested in crime and d...

The Guardian asks its readers what were the worst books of the decade , and book blog commenters fly from the wordwork like borer beetles on...