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Archive for January 11th, 2005


The mysterious number on the right (on down the bottom if you’re not getting the full stylesheet for whatever reason) is the number of days left until September 3rd 2005. This is the date we’ve got pencilled in for the wedding. With luck we’ll be able to confirm it soon.

And for the benefit of those who prefer the revolutionary calendar that’s Décade II, Septidi de Fructidor de l’Année CCXIII de la Revolution.


… when you spend more time replying to your fiancée’s blog posts and comments than you do talking to her face to face.

We’re not quite at that stage yet. Are we dear?


Found via The Virtual Stoa, the latest meme looks interesting, but all Chris’s choices are too high brow, obscure or specialised for me. So I’m starting two new lists here.

Rules: ‘You copy the list [of books] from the last person in the chain, delete the names of the authors you don’t have on your home library shelves and replace them with names of authors you do have. Bold the replacements.’

Fiction

  1. Douglas Adams
  2. Iain Banks (with or without the ‘M’)
  3. C S Forester
  4. Neil Gaiman
  5. Mary Gentle
  6. Peter F Hamilton
  7. Patrick O’Brian
  8. Terry Pratchett
  9. Alastair Reynolds
  10. Vernor Vinge

Non-Fiction

  1. Robert T Bakker
  2. Jared Diamond
  3. Richard Fortey
  4. Danny Goodman
  5. Steve Jones
  6. David Keys
  7. Jakob Nielsen
  8. N A M Rogers
  9. Simon Winchester
  10. Lynne Truss

Hmm, on the subject of that last name, I wonder how many people still have copies of Eats, Shoots and Leaves? And how many people have sent one to the charity shop? Christmas 2003, my brother received two copies and I received one. Does this mean that twice as many people think that he’s a pedant?