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Wiblog - Paul's Wibblings

The Time Traveller's Wife

05/02/10

I've just finished The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger which is a remarkable book, being both a work of science fiction and a love story in one.  read more ...

The Death of Kingsmen

03/02/10

I was lucky enough to do my degree at King's College, Cambridge and one of the consequences of that is that you get sent a copy of the Annual Report every year. ...  read more ...

Linux on Acer D250 Netbook

31/01/10

As it's now a couple of days since I received my new Acer Aspire One D250 netbook I thought it worth writing down some initial impressions, both good and bad.  read more ...

Jane Eyre (the US Edition!)

31/01/10

Inspired by Rob's enthusiasm for Jane Eyre and my (and his) recent reading of The Eyre Affair I thought, after carefully avoiding it for 49.5 years, I should give Jane Eyre a try.  read more ...

Political Graphing

28/01/10

Some days ago Kirk posted on Facebook a link to a graph that was doing the rounds. The graph, originally from the Nation Geographic in a posting about The Cost of Care showed how...  read more ...

Cartoon Poll

27/01/10

The Washington Post is running a poll at the moment: What is your favorite webcomic of the past decade?. If you're quick you may get to vote. I already have so I got to see the results at the time I voted ...  read more ...

Relative Ages

22/01/10

One of the events that's happening this year is my Aunt Pauline's 65th birthday party and it suddenly gave me pause for thought: ...  read more ...

My GP can be Too Keen

21/01/10

I went to see my GP today to get the results of the blood tests I had done last week. It's always nice to see him although I do sometimes feel guilty ...  read more ...

N-N-N-N-Nineteen

18/01/10

I found this while looking for my Oyster card this morning. It's my UL card, issued when I was nineteen years. Such a pretty boy.  read more ...

OS GB 50K Mapping Errors

17/01/10

Now that my mapping software is on the Walkhighlands site I've been able to look again at some tracks from my GPS on 1:25,000 and compare with the 1:50,000...  read more ...

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Current status: (via twitter)
Paul can see a few flakes of wet snow falling #uksnow CB24 1/10
I am currently reading:

Flood
  by Stephen Baxter
Surviving in Stroke City
  Gerry Anderson
Jane Eyre (audio book)
  by Charlotte Bronte

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Word of the Day:
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