I bought three books at Manchester airport yesterday. One of them was The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time by Mark Haddon. I started reading it this afternoon, and have just stopped to slow down. It’s about a young boy with an “emotionally dissociated mind” (a phrase that Ian McEwan used, which I [...]
I don’t think I mentioned it directly here (perhaps partly a cause and effect of the recent blogging hiatus) but the Google Pocket Guide has recently been released. Hurrah! It’s a book I worked on with Rael and Tara (nice work, you two!). Talking to people at O’Reilly last week at OSCON, it seems the [...]
… is a great way to describe, as Kevin Marks did, the fusion of Hogwarts and Molesworth by Alice Dryden, who describes it thus:
Wot hapen when nigel molesworth, the curse of st custards, find himself at hoggwarts skool for WITCHCRAFT and wizzardry? Read on!
A must-read. It brings back many happy memories for me [...]
Great stuff - Shelley’s forthcoming book, “Practical RDF”, is going to be available for public review. I’m looking forward to it.