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Booker Challenge: Book Seven: Swimming Home by Deborah Levy

Posted on September 18, 2012
‘They know they have to dream themselves out of life and back into it, because life must always win us back’ Set in a French summer villa, the story ? such that it is - unravels over a single week. The characters are a famous philandering poet, his war reporter wife and 14 year old [...

Booker Challenge: Book Five: The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman

Posted on September 18, 2012
This is another book that made me laugh. This one is the story of 1930s Berlin theatrical set- designer called Egon Loeser (yes, the pun is intentional) who travels from Berlin to Paris to Los Angeles all for the love of a woman ? or the chance to persuade said woman Adele Hitler (no relation) [...

Booker Challenge: Book Six - Skios by Michael Frayn

Posted on September 18, 2012
Michael Frayn’s first novel in 10 years is a rollicking read that had me laughing out loud on many occasions ? prompting even my girlfriend to enquire about what I was reading. It is a mistaken identity farce set on a fictitious Greek Island where Dr...

Booker Challenge: Book Four: Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil

Posted on September 05, 2012
This book opens with a seven page long sentence. It is the literary equivalent of the single tracking shot in Cinema ? think the opening of Robert Altman’s film adaptation of The Player (which features an eight-minute tracking shot). It is the kind of thing that gets critics crowing and fawning, and when done well [...

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Why I would not have been one of the Osborne Paralympics Boo Boys

Posted on September 04, 2012
Yesterday at the Paralympics the Uk Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne was booed by a large number of the crowd in the Olympic Stadium, when his name was announced for a medal presentation ceremony. Similarly, I spent the evening at the Aquatic centre and a significant number of people booed the prime Minister, David [...

Booker Challenge: Book Three: The YIPS by Nicola Barker

Posted on August 30, 2012
If ever there was a book calling out for a 3-6 part adaptation on BBC 2, The YIPS by Nicola Barker is it. And this may be its biggest problem ? at least as a novel, because whilst its dialogue heavy (which I like) structure accompanied by non dialogue that often has a ring [...

Booker Challenge: Book Two: The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng

Posted on August 17, 2012
It’s funny when you reach the half way point in a book, film, album and you have a ’shrugged shoulders’ feeling about the whole thing, only for that to transform by the end into love. Such a thing happened to me reading Tan Twan Eng’s second novel...

Soft Drinks - a Top 15: It?s frothy man ?

Posted on August 10, 2012
Another Top 15, this time of the best ‘pop’, ‘ginger’ ‘carbonated soft drinks’ of the past and now. In the past most of these would have been the full fat versions ? and indeed some existed before there was an option - but these days I’d usually plug for the diet versions if I [...

THE BOOKER PRIZE CHALLENGE 2012

Posted on August 09, 2012
The Booker Prize long list was published on 25th July. The jury’s choice of the 12 best novels of the year. Those unfortunates who know me will know that for several years I have attempted to read , first the short-list, now the long-list before the prize is awarded...

Crisps ? A Top 15

Posted on August 09, 2012
We all love them, but what are the best ones. I reach into the past (there was a time when I considered Brannigans Roast Beef & Mustard to be the finest crisps ever made ? I had a packet recently and they were not as I remembered.) and embrace the now with my list of [...

Booker Challenge: Book One: Communion Town by Sam Thompson

Posted on August 09, 2012
The first question: Is this a novel or a short-story collection? The second question: Does it matter ? The idea of a city forming the heart of a collection of tales is one that has most famously been done by Italo Calvino in Invisible Cities , and James Joyce in Dubliners (arguably his best work)...

Feeling Invisible at the Lord Northbrook Pub

Posted on July 24, 2012
The Lord Northbrook pub on Burnt Ash Road describes itself as ” a lovely community pub with good food, great wines and ales. Proud to serve classic British pub food and to be part of the SE London community ” It is indeed a lovely pub. I have been in it a few times since it [...

Need a Locksmith? Here?s one I don?t recommend

Posted on July 06, 2012
This week I had to call on the expertise of a locksmith. One of the locks on my girlfriend’s flat wasn’t working properly, so we decided to get someone around to have a look at it. Having got no joy from Twitter on who was worth going to, I went to the internet and after [...

Euro 2012

Posted on June 08, 2012
So, another football tournament comes around and as per usual us Scots are watching it on the TV, or else watching the Rugby team beat the Aussie’s instead. Actually, it is already boring for your average Scotland supporter because we have been deprived of the usual ‘we are going to win it’ attitude from the [...

ASA finds Amazon?s ?prime? deliveries misleading

Posted on May 23, 2012
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) upheld complaints against Amazon UK today for information on its website about its premium account, guaranteed One-Day delivery facility, ‘Amazon Prime’. � The ASA found that the one-day deliver claim was misleading as Amazon had not made it sufficiently clear or prominent that “One-Day Delivery” referred to one day after dispatch, [...

End in nigh for 02 mobile roaming data rip-off

Posted on May 11, 2012
I was in Germany for a couple of days last week and so had my mobile phone with me. However, not wanting to get hit for data costs, I decided to turn off location services, notifications, except for gmail, and also turned off data roaming, deciding to only turn on the data occasionally...

Libraries v Wetherspoon?s

Posted on May 02, 2012
As the unenviable task of picking a London Mayor (and in reality trying to decide on the lesser evil of Boris or Ken) faces those in London tomorrow, the Evening Standard (which has never exactly been Ken’s biggest fan) has published a piece detailing business support for Boris...

AG Bot opinion on resale of computer software = Yes (original copy) and no (licence 2 allow to create new copy)

Posted on April 24, 2012
Advocate General Bot, of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has said that creators of computer programs cannot oppose the re-sale of ‘used’ software by their customers given that their exclusive right of distribution relating to those copies is ‘exhausted’...

Guilty until proven innocent: Govt seeks to snoop more with widened data retention law

Posted on April 02, 2012
It felt a bit like I was having one of those *slaps head* kind of days yesterday when it was revealed the current UK coalition government ? who combined to vote down, the previous Labour government’s stupid plans to extend current data retention rules to allow the intelligence services to monitor in ‘real time’ all [...

Gotta protect the children or interenet censorship?

Posted on March 29, 2012
A Bill was introduced in the Lords yesterday ? Online Safety Bill - thats aim is to force all UK ISPs and mobile phone operators to block access to pornography at network level unless the customer buying access to the internet or mobile network is 18 or over and asks them to remove the [...

Let Yapping Dogs Lie

Posted on March 26, 2012
I have been a bit quiet here of late. In truth I have been trying to decide whether or not I still have the motivation to continuw with the blog and if I do whether or not to change its focus. I’ve not made up my mind. However, whilst I ponder this I decided to [...

Ben Dover 02 customers - copyright infringement letters coming your way

Posted on March 26, 2012
The High Court has granted ?Norwich Pharmacal Order? (NPO) �to Golden Eye and Ben Dover Productions (producers of pornographic films) requiring O2 to hand over the personal details of more than 9,000 internet subscribers who are alleged to have committed infringements of copyright through peer-to-peer (”P2P”) filesharing using the BitTorrent protocol...

Why I?m leaving T-Mobile

Posted on February 17, 2012
I got my phone (HTC Desire) stolen on Thursday evening ? some little fucker with a knife requested it and my cash. Wanted to take he knife and stick it his arse, to be honest, but put sensible hat on and went ? fine, here you go. Anyway, reported phone stolen to T-Mobile and [...

Westlaw: Term Defined: Misplaced

Posted on February 03, 2012
Westlaw UK is a service I have a lot of time for generally. Has a better UI and general look and feel than a certain competitor in the market and also tends to be better for most case and legislation searches. However … The other day I need to do a search to look for a definition [...

Un(Informa)d

Posted on January 24, 2012
On getting back from the Christmas break I found that my user name and password to Intellectual Property Magazine did not seem to be working. I doubled check my details, cleared my temp web pages/cache/cookies for the site. Re-booted, tried again. Nada...

Films of 2011

Posted on January 12, 2012
I have decided to omit Oscar films that came out this year in the UK, so not including the excellent: The Fighter , Black Swan, The Kings Speech, True Grit, Gas Land, and Welcome to the Giftshop. That did make it much harder to come up with a list of 10 though, as I realised [...

Albums and Gigs of 2011

Posted on January 06, 2012
TOP 15 Albums 2011 Album of the Year Bon Iver ? Bon Iver - There really wasn’t an album I returned to more in 2012 than this one. Not a dud track on the whole album (although the Bruce Hornsby impersonation was a bit odd) Here’s Bon Iver performing Perth on Later with Jools Holland And the Rest: [...

No copyright protection for football fixtures - EU Advocate General

Posted on December 15, 2011
Advocate General Mengozzi of the ECJ has recommended that the ECJ rule that a database of football fixtures in the English and Scottish leagues is not protected by copyright law because it is not an original intellectual creation of its author. According to the AG if any intellectual creation happens in this case it is [...

ECJ says ISPs can?t be forced to ?permanently? filter traffic to enforce IP rights

Posted on November 25, 2011
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that a national measure ordering an internet service provider to install a system for filtering and blocking electronic communications in order to protect intellectual property rights in principle infringes fundamental EU rights...

Goodbye Google ? It was good whilst it lasted.

Posted on November 01, 2011
This is just a brief note on today’s ‘upgrade’ to Google Reader. For those not aware as of today it has a new ‘look and feel’ ? i.e the same one that Gmail etc now has, that looks essentially the same but with more pointless white space...

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