July 2010
1 post
Books update
Here we go - quick update including summary:
#10 - Tanglewreck by Jeanette Winterson - an imaginative but flawed children’s book - I’m looking forward to Alex Scarrow’s latest series to see how it matches up to this (also) time-based romp
#11 - Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones - highly regarded but left my distinctly uncharmed. There are four more in the series. The author...
June 2010
2 posts
May 2010
4 posts
Three months and counting...
I started a new job on 3 March 2010 and that’s the excuse I’m sticking to.
Still, the longer you don’t do stuff the more it mounts up. And it has mounted up.
I’ll skip the update although my move into the world of digital marketing has got me thinking.
March 2010
1 post
For lovers of cars and graphic design... →
February 2010
2 posts
January 2010
14 posts
I'm going to catch that bear... →
Love the website... love the photographs →
December 2009
4 posts
“You can’t teach height.”
– Frank Layden of the Utah Jazz
Books...
I’ve decided there’s not much use in updating The Occasional with a separate posting for every single book I’ve read over the past few months and, instead, here’s a compilation that is, I hope, broadly accurate.
What I have found is that finishing work has brought my natural inquisitiveness back to the fore. I haven’t read many factual books for quite a while but...
November 2009
1 post
Behind...
Is it really nearly two months since I last updated my blog?!
I’m afraid I’ve fallen behind in this aspect of my life as other things have taken precedence.
I lost my job on August 15th and a lot of the time since has been spent in a (for the most part) happy blur now that the pressure of being “A Responsible Person” has lifted.
Anyways, I will start catching up over the...
September 2009
8 posts
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
– Arthur C Clarke, Profiles Of The Future
I was particularly taken by the first few images... →
August 2009
1 post
Top 10 Comic Book Cities →
July 2009
9 posts
Old friends...
I decided to reread a few old favourites before ploughing on with my recent purchases.
First up was Jeff Noon’s Vurt - quite simply one of the great British science fiction novels. I can’t recommend it highly enough. Beg. Borrow. Steal. It will blow your mind.
“A young boy puts a feather into his mouth…”
There, I’ve given you the first line. It’s for...
June 2009
10 posts
Charity
Until recently I had been divesting of my material possessions via the commercial vehicles of Amazon and eBay. The plan was to declutter my life while raising a bit of working capital so I could start cluttering all over again (but with “better” clutter).
The practice matched the theory and until recently I was getting rid of stuff (mainly CDs) as fast as you like but then an...
