Category: Brian Layman

Just a quick hello! I can see that a bunch of you are still checking in daily and I haven’t posted much this week. So here’s a post to let you know I am still alive. I’ve got a mega-post I’ve...

By Edgar Rice Burroughs You can view this book’s Amazon detail page here. Tags: Started reading: 31st Jul 2006 Finished reading: 2nd Aug 2006 Review Rating: 6 I started reading A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs to my kids...

By Anne McCaffrey You can view this book’s Amazon detail page here. Tags: Started reading: 24th Jul 2006 Finished reading: 31st Jul 2006 Review Rating: 8 You won’t find me giving any of the books from the Dragon Riders of Pern...

I don’t know if it was because it was midnight or or all the doom III I played before hand, the other prank (would never happen in the lawsuit happy US) I’d watched from this same Japanese TV show or what,...

Originaly posted here. The Worthing Saga By Orson Scott Card You can view this book’s Amazon detail page here. Tags: Started reading: 17th Jul 2006 Finished reading: 24th Jul 2006 Review Rating: 7 The Worthing Saga is a series of short...

I’ve just noticed that BBC7 – the British radio station that simulcasts on an Internet stream – recently re-aired the Doctor Who episode series “Shada”. Shada was originally a never made six episode series from 1980 when Tom Baker was starring...

A Los Angeles video news service sued YouTube Inc. on Friday in federal court for allowing its users to upload copyrighted video footage onto the popular Web site. It turns out that the videographer that filmed the OJ chase and the...

I’d decided to install Rob Miller’s “Now Reading…” version 4.0 plugin ages ago to replace my Read in 2005 and 2006 categories. But I knew there was a new version of my current theme out. So, it didn’t make sense for...

I'm back online - This post describes all the bloody details of dealing with Time Warner Cable's customer service. This is the second time the process was this rocky and I suspect it won't be the last time... ...

It looks like I’m gonna be mostly offline, at home, until Thursday that’s the soonest RR will be able to come out to diagnose why the internet connection is soooo bad… In the meantime, sticking the cable modem in the freezer...