Vintage Ergas column: serial idiocy vs evidence, good institutions and Cervantes. A nice tribute, too, to Gary Banks::is.gd/QreUxe
A great civil servant steps down; humane, hard working, unafraid. Made a difference. Who could fill Gary Banks’ shoes?::goo.gl/Pivix
iPhone 5 16GB costs > $US 200 MORE in Aus than in USA for identical product shipped from China. Suck-you, Apple!
@timoreilly re whisper sync: why didn’t Amazon implement EPub 3.0 standard for media-overlay? They chose to leverage Audible assets instead!
Recording Don Juan Canto 2 at MadCat studios today: shipwreck, cannibalism, a lonely Greek isle, lyrical lovemaking with a pirate’s daughter
In the studio today to record Don Juan Canto 2: shipwreck, cannibalism, a Greek isle, lyrical lovemaking with a pirate’s daughter #lordbyron
Childe Harold, Byron’s slightly campy gothic travelogue, once censored for homoeroticism, now restored is.gd/CNrePJ #lordbyron
Elizabeth I (‘Gloriana’) the first media-personality? “Byron”, the second, had less control of his image is.gd/8IJAgQ #lordbyron
Byron a Vampire’s victim? Tim Powers’ novel weaves a mythic history of revolution, horror & poetry in Italy is.gd/71pUwr #lordbyron
Byron and Shelley as vampires? A review of Tim Powers’ clever mythic history of the romantic poets (& Villon!) in Italy is.gd/71pUwr
Spend a few hours fixing, cleaning my Gmail contacts (D/L as a spreadsheet) using the amazing Google Refine is.gd/iXf7mA