I just finished reading Peter F Hamilton's Void Trilogy. It's taken a long time!

Despite the story being extraordinarily long (and perhaps drawn out, though not nearly as bad as Lord of The Rings) it's pretty epic. It's set so far in to the future that some of the technology is hard to get your head around. It introduces quite a few ideas, such as what if we could share emotions directly? As with many of his books, he kind of puts ideas in there, but doesn't dwell on discussing pros/cons. However, this story does do some exploration of how good ideas can go pretty 'wrong'.

There's a fair bit of morality, and techno-spirituality even.

A French song, remixed by a 17-year-old, then some goofy Americans picked it up and made a video for it.

And, amazing leap at 3:27!

Pluvialis: Neat tune, fun video, AWESOME dancing 😛 http://t.co/gGVUdXH

We bought tickets in advance, but they've massively oversold. Must be at least 300 people in the queue and it's one-in-one-out 🙁 gone to get lunch and decide what to do

I spent about an hour in B&Q trying to choose the right screws from the multitude they offered. I also stained the carpet with brick dust :S But! I have a shelf to put stuff on 😀

While watching The Apprentice: The Final Five, Caroline was able to match an impressive number of music tracks to their films. She is getting quite intelligent!

Word would always put a green squiggle under a 'which' that wasn't preceded by a comma, because some Americans think you should only use 'which' for non-restrictive phrases (i.e. asides) and that only for restrictive phrases. Read the rest of this entry »

We're moving home, and tonight is the last night of packing up. All that's left is my PC, the TV and Sky+.

The PC is next. Good night, Coruscant. See you on the other side!