I spotted a stall selling these necklaces when I was at the earlier this month. The seller had necklaces and bracelets of varying lengths, some in bright colourways and others subdued. I was drawn to the shiny discs like a

has begun, and I'm about 55 pages in. We're meant to be to page 63 by Friday, which I should hit without too much trouble. The only problem is that 63 pages isn't 63 pages. That goal secretly includes probably

I saw last week and realised they were the perfect project to use up the Noro left over from my . The pattern is (but just watch out because there's a missing YO on row 8). I cast on last

Another light week as I recover from my shin splints. I didn't log many miles (only did two short runs), but I did manage two circuit training sessions at that kicked my butt. So hopefully my fitness level isn't taking

08:45: Mikal shared: More coverage of the changes to the taxation of employee share schemes.Tags for this post: blather()

ISBN: 0722144180GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:0722144180');I thought this one didn't sound as good as the others, but I was wrong. Its quite different from the other two in its setting, but its still the same romping Harrison style that I like. A little bit

ISBN: 0345284259Del Rey (1979), Mass Market is the sequel to . To be honest, I think Dragonflight is a better book, although this one is by no means bad. I suspect part of my problem with this book is that

The kids aren't going to be in the same country as me for US father's day (I get two this year!), so they gave me my present early. I now have a complete set of UK police riot armor --

ISBN: 0812550587Tor Books (1995), Mass Market Paperback, 222 pagesGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:0812550587');This is a relatively short collection of Harry Harrison short stories. They are:I always do what Teddy says: what happens when we abdicate teaching our youngsters moral values to machine, and then

14:45: Mikal shared: Its good to see that other people are annoyed by this change as well. It will certainly affect me.The basic issue here isn't that I don't want to pay tax. I'm fine with paying my share.The US

10:02: Mikal shared: This is a step in the right direction. The Australian government has admitted its tax changes for options schemes, which resulted in some such schemes being halted, might be a bad plan10:02: Mikal shared: Good.Tags for this

ISBN: 0671876295Baen (1994), Mass Market Paperback, 288 pagesGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:0671876295');This is another collection of short stories involving Laumer's Bolo artificially intelligent super tanks. None of these stories are written by Laumer, but they are written by some very good SF authors. I

ISBN: 1416541462Free Press (2007), Paperback, 224 pagesGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:1416541462');This book was really fun. Its a collection of 115 questions sent into New Scientist magazine, and the answers provided by other readers. Sometimes the answers and sarcastic or funny, and sometimes they are

ISBN: 0441731309Ace (1990), how disappointed I have been in other books in this series, I was pleasantly surprised by this one. The style is very readable, and the content is interesting. The plot seems more nuanced than some of the

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ISBN: 0671721844Baen (1993), Mass Market Paperback, 320 pagesGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:0671721844');I'm quite partial to the idea of artificially intelligent super tanks. I think they'd simplify my social life quite a lot, for example. I'm also partial to short story collections, and this book

A while ago Thomas Mashos registered a launch pad project for MythNetTV (). Launch pad annoys me quite a bit, although thats probably because I'm failing to understand how to use it in some way. So, perhaps people have guidance

20:27: Mikal shared: Overreacting, never! Its totally reasonable to ban my kids from school for seven days because they've been in the US. What could possibly go wrong? I of course will go into the office the next day for

ISBN: 0553290118Spectra (1993), Mass Market Paperback, 432 pagesGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:0553290118');This is the sixth book in the not-very-finished . This one is pretty good, especially because it has several subplots, which makes it feel more like a few shorter books in one volume.

ISBN: 1400082315Three Rivers Press (2005), Edition: 1, Paperback, 224 pagesGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:1400082315');This book is pretty light weight. The font is big, and there is lots of "chrome" on the pages, which conspire to make a book which would probably be only 100