Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Or rather, the revenge of Photoshop. Many years ago I was on a book cover here. Well it seemed the book itself must have sold quite well, and I have been photoshopped onto some new and even more heroic situations.
I think I have found my new passport photo, unfortunately the only effect on people so far is less ‘Awe and Admiration’ and more ‘Unstoppable Mirth and Laughter’.
A note for the reader, I am not constantly googling myself, I am a Librarian. We have some sort of radar (furtive glance). Yes some sort of magic book radar.
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Sometimes you have to do it yourself.
What with the Sony Reader being very expensive, proprietary and well, a little too Sony. The Amazon Kindle being mildly expensive, unavailable and blisteringly ugly, and all the others requiring substantial loans. The only real solution is to somehow create a more ‘down to earth’ E-Book reader.
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
Found in a Local Supermarket. I am sure it’s very good for you, but ‘Pickled Cabbage Juice’ disturbs me.
Ich habe es im Supermarkt gefunden. Ich bin sicher, das es sehr gesund ist. Aber ‘Sauerkrautsaft’ macht mir Angst.
Thursday, January 10th, 2008
Looking through the internet, I found an interesting puzzle. in 1990 a chap called Alan Wolan claims to have stolen the checkpoint charlie sign. He even stands next to it quite proudly in this Picture.
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Thursday, November 8th, 2007
“Shortly before coming to see this, i found myself in an apoplectic rage because my american debit card wouldn’t work at the ATMs here. People died trying to cross this thing. Apparently, the other side was nothing but tourists”
All the way from the US just to write that, How strange.