Here’s the extract from the new Bond book that Toby Litt begins his review with. Why do you think it might be worth quoting…?
“Bond and Scarlett went into a spacious air-conditioned room that was painted crimson: floor, ceiling, walls - there was nothing in the room that wasn’t poppy-red. Behind a desk stood an old-fashioned [...]

A similar — but distinctly more convivial — experience to Neil McIntosh’s run-in with AOL. I got a mail about a photo I put on Flickr: it’s nominated to be included in a forthcoming visitors’ guide, and I had the opportunity to agree to this or withdraw it. Following up, the site said:
While we offer [...]

I just went out out to buy a card reader for a Micro SD card, and maybe my camera’s Compact Flash card as a nice-to-have. I have returned having spent twenty quid on a — ahem — 55 in 1 card reader. I am currently both in wonder that someone has produced a device that [...]

Here’s a photo sequence that appeared in the paper this morning, and I couldn’t stop looking at it for ages. A man taking a photo above the Grand Canyon, and… oh, goodness.
Update: There’s some discussion about whether it’s a hoax. It would seem that any possible hoax is about not revealing the full picture, which [...]

Reg Developer picks up on Microsoft’s defence[*] of features causing confusion for Windows Vista users. Of interest to me is this, from Microsoft’s document:
We’ve heard some of you say that Windows Vista runs slower than Windows XP on a given PC. So what’s really happening here? First, we need to avoid comparing apples to oranges [...]

Spotted on a poster on the way to work today: LloydsTSB have an exciting and unique offer in which you can take out a mortgage with them and they will kill a baby polar bear on your behalf.
Okay, that’s not true. But they do have “The only mortgage that gives you free Airmiles”, which means [...]

It was a late night last night, and I was listening to the Shipping Forecast (all jolly good until you get the National Anthem; a waste of airtime, but imagine the uproar if they scrapped it). Anyway, Charlotte Green, or whichever salty sea dog had the pleasure, seemed to be telling us that an awful [...]

A couple of photos from Jamie’s stag day, which involved clay pigeon shooting and Jamie being required to dress as Spiderman. More pictures of the event on Flickr, and further below a YouTube video of Spiderman strolling down Tottenham Court Road.

Tags: spiderman, stagday

No thanks to Eurostar, we made it back from Germany with 30 minutes to spare before the polls closed. Unfortunately two more votes cast against bumbling Boris probably won’t be enough. As I write this, expectation is that the public school educated member for Henley-on-Thames will become our mayor and be charming members of the [...]

Next week we’re off to a 60th birthday in Germany. If the Eurostar runs to time we’ll be back just in time to go straight from St Pancras International to our polling station to keep Boris Johnson out. He’s a charming buffoon, but I don’t want a buffoon running the Underground, however charming they are.
My [...]