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This is the third time I've tried to post today.

The first time, I was called to lunch, and my incompetance with Blogger lead to me not saving my work in progress properly. I had Quorn in the end, it wasn't bad.
Then, just now, I had drafted a new version, just like the original except more surly and tactiturn. Then, technological disaster happened. I was, in point of fact, also trying to use Java applets of the now-famous Blind Watchmaker program. I think that may have called for so much bandwidth that it was the veritable equivalent of trying to get a chunky magazine through a letterbox: Just Not A Good Idea. Oh, Java, when will you learn? Thinking about it, though, maybe it didn't help that I was listening to high-res streaming dutch radio... (That's a lot less lewd/ illegal than it sounds).

So anyway, this blog was about Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett. Basically all I've achieved so far today is to read a few hundred-odd pages. That said, it's not a waste- Pratchett is easily my favourite fiction author. Although it probably won't interest you, my personal favourites are Jingo, Feet of Clay and (now) Night Watch.

Holden Caulfield said that the test of a good book was that when you finished it, you wished the author was a great friend of yours that you could call up any time. That is, indeed, how I feel about Mr Pratchett. In fact, if I were to throw a Living Heroes of My Bookshelf, he'd be sat between Bill Bryson and Richard Dawkins.

Shock news!

I have just found some Pratchett short stories online. I once read "Theatre of Cruelty" this way, and was looking for the link to give to y'all. The question is, though... is it ethical to read them? Of course, I'm going to: He's very well off and frankly, he won't earn anything more off me if I don't read them- indeed, it'll make me more of a fan, I'd imagine. Therefore it'll be a victimless crime and a victimless crime, in my opinion, is not a crime at all.

I've been planning to discuss this, and how it relates to music, for a while, so perhaps that'll be in a blog later this week. Stay tuned.

Song in my head: "All the Little Angels"