I’ve just finished House Atreides by James Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. Very, very good. Recommended
Unfortunately, I read this Prelude To Dune series in the wrong order: second then third then first; so I really feel like re-reading the other two, House Karkonnen and
House Corrino next.
I’ll have to see. Dave D at work has just lent me Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai by Yamamoto Tsunetomo. So that’s likely to be next.
Cool! Anthony made the front page of the Manchester Evening News ‘Pink’ (sports supplement).
There is a 300dpi 3300×2300 scan here, it’s 1.2MB
I’ll scan the article on page 4 later.
The Manchester Evening News also produces the Official Newspaper of the XVII Commonwealth Games. Anthony got a (nearly) full page in that too! Again I’ll scan it later.
It’s good to see that Manchester is proud of you too Ant. Well done mate!
I finally finished the second lot of code stream merges I mentioned the other week. This lot took me more than two days again. I had to pull one feature out as the ‘performance’ enhancements (nasty page caching hack) meant that the whole thing needs to be done again!
Only three more to do, including one that is pencilled in to take 5 days!
I was going to do some work from home tonight, but as I didn’t actually get home until a quarter past midnight, I’ll give it a miss and finish it in the morning.
We all had a good time this evening for Thom’s birthday. It was made all the more special by watching Thom’s cousin competing in the Commonwealth Games in the weight lifting.
I think Thom (who’d asked for money for his birthday) ended up with over
The BBC have got the story. Anthony gets more cover than the winner!
Here’s Ananova’s story Anthony get the headline.
Still celebrating!
In yet another blog-worthy moment, Jackie made me a cup of coffee tonight! 🙂 :-):-)
Thanks Jack.
It was a bribe to get another mention 🙂
