Saturday 27 December 2008

Recently Read

I've recently read a number of books which I intended to review at great length here on the blog. It never happened. So as an alternative to long exhaustive book reviews I will be posting short 100 word summary-reviews of relevant texts and sometimes novels (cheeky) here on the blog over the next few weeks. Your thoughts, comments, and suggestions of similar reading are welcome and actively encouraged.

Thursday 25 December 2008

Contained in the biography...

Searching for 'Daniel Fogg' and 'blog' in Google yields no results leading to my page. Understanding how the Google search algorithum works, I do not find this surprising. However, I came across the website of another Daniel Fogg. Although this character does not seem particularly interesting (something in the name perhaps), he has a mean eye for a good quote.

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” George Bernard Shaw - writer, Nobel laureate (1856-1950)

Hiatus - hi⋅a⋅tus [hahy-ey-tuhs]

–noun, plural -tus⋅es, -tus.
1. a break or interruption in the continuity of a work, series, action, etc.
2. a missing part; gap or lacuna: Scholars attempted to account for the hiatus in the medieval manuscript.
3. any gap or opening.