The BBC reports that the judge of the recent Dan Brown/Holy Blood Holy Grail (HBHG) plaigarism trial apparently left his own code in the judgement on the case. There are letters in italics which seem to spell out some words.…
CILIP debates
Tom Roper links to a couple of interesting online debates concerning CILIP and its purpose, particular one on Freepint. I’m playing with weblog setup, in particular tags, so if this post keeps reappearing and changing I apologise.
Happy Easter
Easter, the time when we celebrate the death and alleged resurrection of the founder of the Merovingian dynasty by eating chocolate is almost upon us and the famously secular college for whom I work are good enough to give us…
Da verdict
The Da Vinci Code trial ended last Friday with the judge finding in favour of Mr Brown. I think this was the only realistic verdict. As George MacDonald Fraser said in the Telegraph at the weekend: They’ve got to lose…
Backgammon luck
Sil, who has for some time refused to play backgammon with me after a series of (admittedly often close) thrashings may find some comfort in the following, which I found on Wikipedia. It concerns one of the earliest backgammon playing…
Brutal ice cream
Ben and Jerry are bringing out the following new flavour of ice cream (via Crooked Timber): I thought this might be an April Fool, but it seems to be persisting in a convincing manner at the Ben and Jerry website.…
New train company
There is now a new train company running through Sandy: First Capital Connect. This is rather a rubbish, overlong, and ambiguous if innocuous name. By my reckoning, First operate 6 services ‘connecting’ to the capital in some way. Still, it’s…