Posts Tagged: Books

An Obsession Shared…

For a long time I have enjoyed reading Ink Quest which features the experiences, trials and tribulations of a fellow obsessive’s search for the perfect fountain pen ink. It made me feel so much better to realise that there others out there who are perhaps slightly more obsessive even than I. However, I feel IContinue Reading ›

Top 6 of 2006

To follow my Top 5 of 2005 I present my Top 6 of 2006… Books My reading has been dramatically affected by my no longer working in London. Where I would easily read a book a week commuting in I have read about three books since leaving my job in London in July. Not good…Continue Reading ›

I Have Only My Dreams

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softlyContinue Reading ›

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Did you see the Chili Peppers on Jonathan Ross (BBC 1 UK) on Friday night? Simply superb. They played their new single ‘Dani California’, which is really rather good, then followed it with one of my all time favourite Chili Peppers tracks ‘Give It Away’. They were quite frankly awesome – the best live bandContinue Reading ›

Top 5 of 2005

Yes another Top X of 2005 listing… Top 5 Events 1. The Birth of my son 2. Celebrating 15 years with and 5 years married to my beautiful wife 3. Spending hours bobbing around in the Med with my daughter Jasmine 4. Finally buying a Mac 5. So many others… Top 5 Albums 1. StarsContinue Reading ›

Jack Into Your Ono Sendai

NTT are releasing a 3D web browser that looks a little (just a little) like how I imagined cyberspace to look when reading Neuromancer by William Gibson although my cyberspace was much darker and a little more Tronlike. Neuromancer is one of my top books of all time. It blew me away when I readContinue Reading ›