Kind hearts are more than Coronets (and simple faith than norman blood) – sent to G Moutrey, Durham in 1903, from Blackpool (as per the postmark) - another great example of the postcard that would now be obsolete due to the text message. Click more for the message.
Workbidder.co.uk – interesting reverse auction model for home tradesmen (UK)
Very useful site – UK : M4/M40/M25 traffic updates via twitter – plus more (add me)
Useful white noise generator – runs in your browser – simple to use.
From Canterbury to Mr Hook, Vicarage Road, Egham in Surrey in 1946. Click more for the full message.
With humble apologies and due deference to John Cleese.
Petition to revoke the independence of the United States of America
To the citizens of the United States of America, in the light of your failure to elect a competent President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective today.
Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths and other territories…except Utah, which she does not fancy.
Your new Prime Minister (The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, for the 97.85% of you who have until now been unaware that there is a world outside your borders) will appoint a Minister for America without the need for further elections.
The House of Representatives and the Senate will be disbanded.
A questionnaire will be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed. To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:
I’m not a big reader of crime fiction – especially those murder mystery type affairs where an enigmatic cop find his way through a labyrinth of information to arrest the psychopath – that’s too much like my day job.
However – someone bought my a hardback of Broken Skin for my birthday last year, and I finally got round to reading it.
Broken Skin tells the story of Logan McRae, a detective sergeant in Aberdeen as he investigates a number of seemingly unlinked incidents. A murder in the local BDSM community, a rapist football star and an 8 year old murderer are all on the loose in the Scottish city.
As it happens – the story is quite taut with a twist or two along the way. The dialogue funny and hard hitting. The crimes are fairly gruesome but the book doesn’t spill over into a gore-fest, and concentrates largely on the characters round the CID in Aberdeen as the hunt down the criminals.
If you are into crime thrillers – then this one can be recommended. You might as well get in a read it, because I fully expect that this (and the character – Logan ‘Lazarus’ McRae) will be turned into a TV cop (a la Rebus or Taggart).
Microsoft acquires Powerset – a semantic search engine that allows natural language queries – I wonder how long it will take us to get rid of the Google ads in the right rail?
Whilst I was looking at information about the new James Bond film, I noticed that Daniel Craig is due to play the devil (alongside Ewan McGregor as the main character – Declan Gunn) in a movie based on one of my favourite books of recent years.
I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan tells the story of satan sent back to earth in a test to see whether he can behave himself enough to return back to heaven.
It is a brilliant story (like all of Glen Duncan’s writing) with savage dialogue and just enough religious influence to make it super interesting. I’m really looking forward to the film.
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