Wiblog - Paul's Wibblings

While laid up on the sofa today I watched the first episode of Zen on iPlayer. What a stylish bit of work. It's based on the late Michael Dibdin's novel Vendetta and is apparently the first of three they're televising over the next few weeks.  read more ...

I'm busy reading several years' back issues of Practical Boat Owner at the moment (thanks Hugo) and was thinking I should take out a subscription. As well as offering it in dead tree format it's available digitally for you to download. Wow, I thought, that would be cool. Except it's not.  read more ...

When I last wibbled about ebooks I did finish by saying that it wasn't all bad news and I would try to write something about the positives. So here's some of them:  read more ...

I have already wibbled about ebooks and prices but I've just been through the pain of trying to acquire my first ebook for money. The lucky winner was Stieg Larsson's "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". It's a book I wanted to read anyway; not to mention being the book on the sample photo Sony put out to promote the PRS-350 (which I now possess).  read more ...

I am a sinner. I know I'm a sinner because I've just bought yet another gadget I don't really need, a Sony Reader PRS-350 Pocket Edition ebook reader, largely on the strength of this review.  read more ...

I've not been at my best today so I've been on the sofa reading more of Mike Parker's Map Addict and in it he talks about how the cartographers occasionally like to leave their own tags on the map, just like graffiti artists.  read more ...

I've just finished Iain Banks' Canal Dreams. I've not read that much Banks in recent years. I read one of his Culture SciFi books a while ago ...  read more ...