Today

  • James tweeted, "Getting the urge to read post-captialism communist Science Fiction. Recommendations?"
  • James tweeted, "@darrenturpin they will probably put IE8 in windows update. But you can turn it off. Best option is to ignore people with stupid browsers."

October 7

  • James tweeted, "Didn't bring my book to work today because it's as heavy as my laptop. Listened to the radio on the bus instead with some daydream plotting."

October 5

  • James tweeted, "Planet Of The Apes is about to start on Five. I may have to watch it."
  • James tweeted, "@PaulGrahamRaven I was thinking of getting some of those bulbs to scatter about the house, let me know if they're any good!"
  • James tweeted, "Just watched The Black Hole. Much better than I remembered (which was just Maximillian killing people, BZZZZ!)"

October 3

  • James tweeted, "Looking forward to reading Anathem at every opportunity possible this weekend. (Which will probably be far less than I really want.)"
  • James tweeted, "@shanucore pickled onion flavour?"
  • James tweeted, "Michael Palin seems awfully popular at the moment."

October 2

  • James tweeted, "Quite fancy reading Order 66 which arrived today. An entire novel about clone troopers slaughtering Jedi. Cooool."
  • James tweeted, "Finished Earth Ascendant (not great) started Anathem. Read three pages (out of 933). So far it's great."
  • James tweeted, "@darrenturpin do you spend every lunchtime boozing?!"

October 1

  • James tweeted, "@darrenturpin yeah, perhaps the deal is that you're allowed one standalone for every trilogy, like buy one get one free?"
  • James tweeted, "In post books 1,2,2 and 6 of some fantasy series. Plus a standalone! Shock! Bet it has a sequel. Is it a miracle feat to sell a single book?"
  • James tweeted, "in the "want to finish this book to start the next" reading phase, which is slightly unfair to the current book."
  • James tweeted, "@SFDiplomat it would be impressive, putting off watching SF TV to do other stuff, if I didn't just watch Jamie Oliver TV shows instead"

September 30

  • James tweeted, "still behind with the TV watching. Gathering the enthusiasm to watch Fringe is hard."
  • James tweeted, "starting to get annoyed with having two twitter accounts. I keep forgetting which one I'm logged in as."
  • James tweeted, "would have done more editing on the bus if my printer hadn't run out of toner last night."

September 26

  • James tweeted, "Thinking that this weekend I should write a review of Saturn's Children and The Next Race. And watch TV. And read lots. And do a redesign."
  • James tweeted, "Got up early and rewrote a scene for an older story. Got into the groove and could have carried on but life intervened."

September 24

  • James tweeted, "@PaulGrahamRaven Nice video demo of the Android. Doesn't look as slick (or thin ) as the iphone though. But if it's loads cheaper..."
  • James tweeted, "needs to start weight training to hold Anathem, but it's here, finally. Coooooool."

September 23

  • James tweeted, "There are reports of a GIANT book arriving at home, via Amazon. ANATHEM! Hurrah, rejoice and be merry."

September 21

  • James tweeted, "thinking I should be writing a review of Saturn's Children but instead trying to find fresh new random stuff to blog about"

September 20

  • James tweeted, "@PaulGrahamRaven Back home now, but did have a lovely Halibut steak and chips there. (At the oldest restaurant in the universe or something)"
  • James tweeted, "NBC Universal want my phone number because they "are interested in exploring mutually beneficial ways" to work together. Marketing ALERT!"
  • James tweeted, "Either me or "an available writer on your staff" is invited to EA in CA or NY to play new game. Ho ho. Maybe one of my staff could fly out?"
  • James tweeted, "Back from the seaside. Catching up on bloggerly stuff. My phone is rubbish fro blog posting, but reader works ok."

September 19

  • James tweeted, "started reading earth ascendant"

September 17

  • James tweeted, "@shanucore Maybe I'll stick to the hotel bar :-)"
  • James tweeted, "will be in Brighton this week from tonight. Tips accepted for places to go if I escape the Microsoft con."
  • James tweeted, "@tobiasbuckell I love how the camera swoops through them. Made me giggle. I'll probbaly get bored of them soon."

September 16

  • James tweeted, "listening to Scientists talk about Science stuff"

September 15

  • James tweeted, "@despotliz Not liking The Baroque Cycle doesn't make you a communist, it just means you have no taste ;-)"
  • James tweeted, "@darrenturpin I think the acer is Aspire One or something, looks cute. But they have full sized cheap laptops too www.acerdirect.co.uk."
  • James tweeted, "@darrenturpin I wondered what those cheap Acer's are like. Too cheap and too good to be true?"
  • James tweeted, "@darrenturpin My new work laptop is a Dell XPS M1730. MONSTER. Fast and big. No good for carrying, good desktop replacement."

September 12

  • James tweeted, "@sfsignal Goodluck. Hope it's not bad."
  • James tweeted, "Terry Pratchett just said "Us Science Fiction writers". Nice. (He's on FiveLive.)"

September 11

  • James tweeted, "Has turned comments back on at BDO, but trackbacks are off, because of the endless spam."

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