I finished two books in a week! Admittedly I started both of them last year – but hey! Bye Bye Balham by Richard Herring – perfect for slicey reading. Slicey as in a page or two at a time when you get a minute rather than a few sittings of a few hours which a ‘proper’ book deserves. Like the books Clarkson releases with his articles. Or Charlie Brooker. But from a blog not a column. Self contained little time wasters – but good. Mostly.
Weirdly I bought it more as a nod for the podcast he does with Andrew ‘Kermode must be on holidays’ Collins.

I finished bad science at last. Wish I’d saved the chapter on the evil Gillian McKeith rather than reading it first. I hope he writes a sequel entirely devoted to a second by second breakdown of her ‘fact’ filled TV appearances. I do like a bit of harmless demonisation. He debunks ‘coffee is evil’ scare stories on http://www.badscience.net so I like him.

I just got my copies of Mustard – the new(ish) comedy magazine. A lot funnier than I expected. Although they better not keep using the phrase ‘post-spaced’ in interviews. Less than £5 for 3 issues.

Inventoids is my little site where I collect stupid ideas for inventions. Well, not inventions, inventOIDs.

Almost everyone who comments on that site hates me because I sliced a few little bits out of a notebook.

This is a very very simple random password generator. Just hit refresh for a bunch of new passwords to C’ and P’ wherever you need ‘em. Great for lazy password generation. Saves me from making all my passwords African countries with s=5 / o=0 / e=3 etc…

8 digit easy pwds
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10 digit slightly wierdy pwds
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14 digit fully wierdy pwds
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