Month: November 2006
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The End – penultimate w/e
All good things come to an end, and next w/e we leave Bangkok. Tonight is our final farewell party (we had one before, for my work – this one is for all the rest of Bangkok (Tricia’s friends)). We have had a great time here, but are looking forward to the year end festivities in…
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cataloguing books
A service has emerged called LibraryThing. For free, you can list up to 200 titles from your own private library. For a fee, you can join the site and list as many books as you like – from your library, your wishlist, ones you want to read but not own etc. Apart from the fact…
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this is a book everyone must read
I first read about Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning, by George Monbiot, on several of the book blogs I keep up with. I heard about the marketing associated with the book: how Random House shipped free copies of it along with fluorescent lightbulbs to reviewers. I heard about how everyone should read…
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oooh, those brussel sprouts…
All I can say is… so true!
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It is almost time for me to leave this beautiful country and I am very sad and full of regrets at not having done a lot of things; such as help with Soi Dog Rescue www.soidogrescue.org It is an organisation that works to help the soi or street dogs. They are abandoned dogs that of…
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giller light review
Last night I attended the Giller Light Bash, courtesy of my workplace. It was held at the Steam Whistle Brewery and was a semi-swank affair attended by the public, book industry types, minor celebrities like some runners up in Canadian Idol, Chantal Kreviazuk and Ben Mulroney (I stood behind Kreviazuk as Mulroney interviewed her live…
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leveling the playing field, a little bit
Kudos to Reversa for turning around the “hot women as an incentive to buy products” in advertising. This is a really good one. Check it.