Emergency Broadcast System - Updated

About 10:30 last night there was a failure in the raid system on my computer - it's a twin hard-drive system that mirrors the data just in case one hard-drive crashes. The system has somehow got out of sync, although the computer itself I've managed to reboot. This is a very good sign and hopefully that means that the mirror system has rebuilt itself. Meanwhile I'm taking the precaution of

Silence

So... we watched Doctor Who and while waiting for Confidential to start I wandered off to make a cup of coffee and have half a cigarette, which I had in the office. It couldn't have been more than three minutes. Wandered back into the kitchen to face this...

Obviously I can't remember why I'm posting this.

E-mail woes - UPDATED

I'm currently having problems receiving e-mails. It's not a problem at my end but with Demon, through whose services I've been e-mailing merrily for the last 15 years... I guess there's a first time for everything. Anyway, they're aware of the problem (it isn't just affecting me) but, 12 hours on, they've still to resolve it.

So, if you've sent an e-mail and were expecting a response, please

Readers, I Swooned: Lifestyle Illustrations

The Sunday Telegraph's Stella magazine (3 October) ran a nice piece on Rian Hughes' Lifestyle Illustrations of the '50s and Lifestyle Illustrations of the '60s with a good selection of pictures. I missed it, but thanks to David Roach—who wrote the introductions to the two volumes—we can enjoy a look at some of the fantastic illustrations in the books. Lifestyle Illustrations of the '60s is out

The Air Defence of Britain

The Air Defence of Britain
Penguin S8, Oct 1938, 224pp, 6d.
——, 2nd imp., Oct 1938.
Too little definite information about Britain's air defences has so far been available to the general public. This book, in which three responsible authorities cover every important aspect of what has now become a most urgent problem and everybody's concern, has been specially planned to remedy this. Between them

TV tie-ins: Reading the Decades

Reading the Decades by John Sutherland (BBC ISBN 0-563-48810-7, 2002)
As we've been talking about TV tie-in books this past week, I thought I'd bring you one that I was actually involved in. Not the book, although I do get an entry in the index and I'm briefly quoted, but the TV show.

Reading the Decades was a BBC2 series, billed as “forty years of books that changed the world,” broadcast in

Comic Cuts - 6 August 2010

I was planning to relate the tale of our move but time has raced away from me again so I shall skip through the boring details. As long-time readers will know we learned in May that we would have to move out of our home of 15 years. The reason was the possible leap in Capital Gains Tax the new government was planning to introduce; our landlord decided to sell the house and we were given two

Another interim report

Things are slowly getting back to normal... e-mail is now working properly, signal strength on the wireless router is better now we've moved it downstairs and seems to work OK in Mel's new office (once we pick up a card for her computer). Moved some books around and started to fill up the shelves and finally managed to do a little bit of work.

With no distractions from the outside world, thanks

We're Back! (sort of)

Hi All,

A quick update. We're now safely installed in the new house but have had a few problems with connectivity: the phone line was dead when we moved in, but we got that back up and running on Wednesday. Internet connection is running as of Sunday evening but the wireless connection to my new office is poor and seems to drop out every ten minutes or so, which is a problem still to resolve.