I don’t want to be abandoned without something good to read while on my motorcycle trip this year so intend to take a stash of books; this pile and maybe others I’ve started and want to finish or have recently found:

But in the interests of travelling small (rather than light) the prospect of the unaesthetic Kindle comes to mind. The challenge is to find these titles available for it. However, there’s nothing like sitting down with a real book in your hands, especially the lovely edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom I bought on Abe Books. (It doesn’t look like Being and Time is available to Kindlers) At the moment I will stick with my space-using pile.

Finally I worked out how to replace my tables within tables with css on my website.

My normal approach is: surround myself with library books with colourful screen shots, ignore them, proceed using trial and error and slight familiarity, feel frustrated at the unpredictability of results, spend daily train journeys on it, forget which file is the most up to date. But suddenly, everything comes together and the end result is a much neater clever layout that stays centred, where the content doesn’t splay sideways at the slightest opportunity…

Exciting but scary too given the circumstances, he’s somewhere here:

I exchanged big boots and gloves for a stripy apron today and made this year’s Christmas cake from the Cranks recipe.