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Vista Annoyances

Today Slashdot has a review of Windows Vista Annoyances published by O’Reilly Media. I happened to pick it up in Foyle’s bookshop last Saturday.
I flicked through it and I thought
You must be joking
There’s a lot not to like about Vista, but 641 pages? As a Victorian child is said to have opined about a book [...]

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Detective Wanted

Inspector Rebus is due to retire soon. We don’t know yet if he will be killed in Ian Rankin’s last book. Either way, it’s time for me to find a new detective.

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Chance Meetings in Oxford Street

I stumble upon a reading by Ishmael Beah in Starbucks in Oxford Street.

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Stumbling Upon Dan Gilbert

Dan Gilbert’s Stumbling Upon Happiness wins the Royal Society Book Prize.

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Primate Parents

A brief review of Chris Stewart’s Almond Blossom Appreciation Society, the 3rd in a trilogy about the life of an English couple who move to Spain and life a simpler happier life.

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