fourth edition

In the early ’00s the blogosphere was very different to what it is today. The number of bloggers was very small and everyone seemed to sort-of-almost know each other. My friendship with Stuart of Feeling Listless goes back to this adamic age and this morning Stuart wrote about another blogger who I had actually forgotten [...]

“It is a sign of a deeply disturbed civilization where Tree huggers and Whale huggers in their weirdness are acceptable… while no one embraces the last speakers of a language.” -Werner Herzog
Found here which looks at whether we should preserve languages and whether a world with monolithic language usage would be a bad thing? More [...]

“Based on the books in your collection,” the Facebook notification read, ” we thought you might like the New York Times best-selling author, Arthur Phillips’, new book The Song is You.”
A quick google-search came up with a book which the New York Times described as “[reading] like a maladroit mash-up of the romantic comedy “Sleepless [...]

Observation #1: I don’t outright hate the Leona Lewis cover of “Run” (youtube link) although I still prefer the the Snow Patrol original (youtube link). I am mildly disturbed and am now going to listen to ironic hipster music.
Observation #2: I recently decided that I was spreading myself thin in social networking and blogging ventures. [...]

Where on earth do you guys come from?
Fourth Edition was started last year after a six-month-ish blog hiatus. Earlier the same year my then blog, Bookish, had been deleted by my then web host (others had similar problems with the company and were far more vocal than me – good on ya, Ras). [...]

Yesterday someone I knew roughly fifteen years ago wrote to me via Facebook. She asked me if I were dying because she had noticed my status updates on Facebook (and quite possibly this blog) and was, I quote, sooo worried about me!!!!!!!!!
One thing which absolutely fascinates me about blogging and, by extension, social networking on [...]

I promised E. that I’d list the podcasts I like. I’m relatively new to podcasts (I’m slow on the uptake), so I’m yet to build up a list of definitive favourites. If someone has recommendations, I’d be happy to hear them!
Left Field Cinema is an intelligent podcast looking at both arthouse cinema (like Kieslowski) and [...]

For various reasons I have been unable to post a photo of my first major foray into knitting in fifteen years. This is the stole shawl that spawned an obsession, dear readers.
I have known E. for many years and she is one of my closest friends. She turned forty in February and I [...]

One of these days I’m going to knuckle down, find the copy of WordPress for Dummies that Auntie M. gave me for Christmas*, recover the password for my webhost and do another installation of WP on the second SQL server.
(* WP was messing me about at that point. Possibly the three-hospitals-in-11-days thing didn’t help either. [...]