I picked up this collection of short stories while hunting down hunting down appropriate English workbooks for a colleague. I was in a bookstore, so I was in a trance, almost. I spotted copies of the ‘Silverfish New Writing 6′ collection of short stories on a sparse shelf while looking through other bits of local fair, flipping throu ...Continue
I put off reading En Syed Akbar Ali’s second book, and when I did start reading, I found that I should’ve done it earlier. I’m about half-way through the book now, and I’ll start over again once I’m done reading it, just to let some ideas percolate a little. What’s brought me out to write my first impressions a ...Continue
I say this after spending a few hours last night trawling through the Neverwinter Nights 2 forums. I’ve been following the development of this game for years, now, and I’m still waiting for my Amazon-bought copy to arrive safe and sound. In the meantime, wading through the forums is like wading through a hellacious mass of barely-st ...Continue
Heh. Does anyone remember Sir Humphrey Appleby and the Rt. Honourable Jim Hacker, MP? A choice bit of dialogue from Season 3 of “Yes, Minister”:
Sir Humphrey: What’s the matter, Bernard?
Bernard: Oh, nothing really, Sir Humphrey.
Sir Humphrey: You look unhap ...Continue
I’ve just installed OpenOffice after my disastrous run-in with the Autopatcher bundle of updates for WinXP. Which means, yes, I’ve had to bloody reinstall everything, and it’s taken me most of the afternoon and, as it turns out now, much of the night. Besides losing everything, I’ve lost all my previous documents as well.. ...Continue