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So, the episode of CSI:NY that just aired on Five (in the UK, it was on in October in the US) involved a Da Vinci Code-esque clue trail laid with t-shirts by a serial killer. Yeah, about as bizarre as CSI usually is.

But anyway, this t-shirt treasure hunt was linked to a website, kodecon.com, which, [...]

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Ah! He’s back. In France. Awesome.

Umm… I just deleted the template that generates the individual blog posts here. And I can’t find the copy I had stored on my computer.

I think I’ve pieced it back together, but if something doesn’t seem to work properly, drop me an email.

And keep an eye out for something totally new and exciting coming in [...]

I was muchly saddened this morning to hear of the passing of Ian Richardson, one of the UK’s greatest character actors of recent years. He died unexpectedly in his sleep, according to his agent.

He could always be counted on to bring a degree of gravitas to any role, from the grotesque Lord Groan in Gormenghast [...]

Yep, Outlook 2007 junked, all on its own, an email from Bill Gates telling me how secure it is. Irony?

It’s like when the new, secure XP Service Pack 2 blocked Internet Explorer from accessing the interwebs…

Captain Caroline pointed me towards this story in the Daily Mail about our latest University Challenge match:

Angry viewers have accused Jeremy Paxman of showing favouritism towards Oxbridge teams on BBC2 quiz University Challenge. Fans of the show have complained that Paxman, who himself went to St Catherine’s College at Cambridge, [...]

This is what YouTube was invented for…

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I’d love to [...]

Just to highlight the complete and utter ineffectiveness of Durham Student Union (DSU), this is a snip from the front page of its website:

It’s been promising a new site since before Christmas. Still waiting.

“Do Nothing” is, apparently, a DSU campaign to help freshers hunting for houses for next year, by getting them all to house [...]

On a short trip around the interwebnets, involving a LiveJournal, a HypnoBoris and Hansard, I came across this extract from a Commons debate on either drunken behaviour or arrest without warrant, or something. It starts fairly innocuously, discussing the wording of the bill, but then Boris gets involved and raises the issue of being drunk [...]

Well, there goes my 7-7-7 theory (that is, that Book 7 would be published on 7/7/07)…

Let the pre-orders commence!

(JKR)

Update: according to Bloomsbury, the two versions of the book have an RRP of a whopping £17.99 (approx $35), making them the most expensive Potter novels yet…

…but it looks like Waterstone’s is price-matching Amazon.co.uk, selling both editions [...]