Archive for July, 2005

Ebooks = porn, technical and business

Posted on July 29, 2005 ~ Filed Under Diary

What a surreal list you get if you search Amazon.com for “ebooks”. Porn at the top, combined with Harry Potter, MBA books and consumer tech.

Radio 4 has no gay or lesbian presenters

Posted on July 15, 2005 ~ Filed Under Culture

Radio 4 have added a nice feature of their site which pulls together presenter biographies. The thing that strikes me is how many of the presenter biographies mention families and children, but I can’t find a single one that makes it known the presenter is gay. One refers to a partner, which could be […]

Getting to grips with the London bombings

Posted on July 11, 2005 ~ Filed Under Culture, Diary

Well, I’ve been holding off posting anything here about the London bombing in the hope that it will all gradually become clear and I’ll be able to make some coherent sentences about it. I’m now beginning to think that’s not going to happen. It’s all too odd and there are too many things to think […]