Round up. Yeehah.

[erastes]

Question: What’s the name for the person one fags for? It’s not fagee, and that’s what I have for now…Is there a proper word for it? or is it just “Soames, whom he fagged for in his second year.”?

Oh-kay – I can’t see any reason why anyone would buy a Kindle, which starts in the UK at £109,

and the better version is  £40 ish more I think, when one can get an Android for £80 that does a bazillion things—can download most Apps, AND has Kindle on it too. *baffled*  Or am I missing something?

So yes, I’m pleased with Snowy. I’ve connected to Livejournal and Facebook with it, have sent emails and have connected to Twitter. I can’t see me using it a lot for social networking to be honest, as I can do all of that with the computers—and Shiny goes with me just about everywhere, but it might be a boon in all the endless hospital visits – we’ll see.

I’m leaving it on today, just to see how long the battery lasts. I suspect it’s only a few hours – about two when connected to the internet – but it would be sufficient for reading. There’s not many times when I’m not near a plug and even if I sat in a hospital waiting room for two hours I wouldn’t want to read every single second.

I have downloaded some of the free books from Amazon, classics like Jekyll & Hyde, Cranford, and The Prince. Stuff I’ve not read, and really should have done…I’ve ordered an SD card, so I should be able to read PDF’s soon which will really help me reviewing for SIN. Hurrah. I wish I’d have it 20 years ago when I went round the world, I can tell you. I remember wishing something like that existed, as all i could take was a copy of Lord of the Rings and I read it about ten times in a year, because English books were bloody hard to get hold of. How fabulous it would have been to take 100s of books away.

I still have many many reservations about ebooks and pirating, but, there’s nothing much I can do to stop it, and well, I loves me Snowy!

If you aren’t listening to Philip Larkin’s “Letters to Monica” on Radio Four at the moment, then you are missing a real treat. Not only is he how I expected him to be, rather morose and grumpy, and a real "this stuff is such crap" author—but he’s also hilariously funny in spots.  I don’t know if he means to be, but the letters really make me giggle, like the time Samuel Beckett called round and all Larkin could remark upon was his awful American haircut which made him look like Atomboy and the time he met E M Forster and the ensuing conversation which followed. A real treat. I shall be downloading the entire week’s series (it’s Book of the Week, so is on all week) for enjoyment later. It’s available on BBCiplayer – and the radio show (unlike the TV) are accessible to Non-Uk listeners. There’s one spot where he starts talking about all the poems he’s got and what the hell he’s going to do with them. He says he can’t give them to friends, as he’s only got ten—and suggests he might end up sending them to bookshops with the proviso they are given away free to any customer who says please.

I have to say that truthfully, I have never EVER heard of Janet Evanovich until today. Obviously I don’t haunt the right shelves in the library.

Interesting: (YMMV) now having Word 97 on my laptop, and comparing it with Open Office – the word counts for the same book, the same file are different.

Word says I’ve done:49087

Open Office says I’ve done:49423

Why is this? No prizes for guessing which one I’m going with. 50k tomorrow! It’s a TAD depressing that people will be writing as much as I’ve been doing for months – just this month!!

 

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