Archive for January, 2009

Bye Bye The Destroyer

And so my obsession with the destroyer novels has come to an end. A great series of novels originally written by Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir about an ex-cop trained as an assassin to work for a secret US government sponsored agency. 149 books in total  - although I only read 135.
I loved the first […]

I balk at Hawk by Dan Streib

And there I stood thinking I had found a bargain picking up 3 Dan Streib Hawk books at knock down give away prices.
Much though I love pulp fiction I could find nothing to endear me towards Hawk.
For some reason the author would never consistently refer to him by one name. One sentence we call him […]

What did they do to Tarzan?!

I used to watch the Tarzan films as a kid - great.
I used to read the Tarzan comics as a kid - fab.
I think I read one Tarzan book as a kid - illiterate slob.
But now I have built up my Tarzan book collection and have decided to work through them in sequence. Boy have […]

Looking for the perfect word processor

A long time ago when I owned an Atari ST, I considered the mighty Protext my favourite word processor. Every so often I do a search to see what happened to it, thinking it might one day move into Freeware territory. And lo, on my last search it has. And so I eagerly downloaded it […]

I’m just not ready for Linux

I bought my Asus EEE with Linux pre-installed. And after 4 months with it - I’ve almost got subversion working with my Windows repository (but not quite). I’ve spent a lot of time fiddling with Linux to get ‘expert’ mode working and move icons onto the display. I upgraded the memory and had to identify […]