BHUGA WOOGA!

I've started to write short little reviews of the books I read. There's a couple of reasons for this. One is simply to keep better track of what I've read in the longer term, of course, but the main one is that I think one simply reads more carefully when one intends to write something on it, even if almost nobody intends to read it. Turning over the ideas in your head, and thinking of how you'd express them, forces you to read deeper.

Because I really do want to keep this habit up, I'm keeping the barrier of entry quite low for myself. That means no links, no revision or proofreading, and little to no proper internet research before I stand up and cover spectators with spittle with whether or not I've liked a book. No muss, no fuss. Just my thoughts after reading. If it's work to write it up, I won't do it for every book.

At any rate, feel free to read them. You can find them at on the site. There's a feed at http://bhuga.net/books-feed that one could add to a feed reader, were one were so inclined.

It's over, it's done. No more hair. It was a good run, hair, and I'll miss you, but it's time to move on.

Ben's hair, 1980-2008. RIP.

The best part is that I could not find a hand mirror to see the back side of my head with, so I bought a comb with one in the handle. The irony of this did not strike me until I was actually using it.

Lets see how long it takes my family to find this set of pictures on my website. Having had several requests for pictures from Marbella, I left 'early' (just before sundown) and took some blurry pictures with my brand-used iPhone, so it's a set of pictures of what I see on my bike ride home. Since this constitutes absolutely everything I have seen in Marbella, this is completely appropriate.

There were twice as many, but many were too blurry to use. Also, despite my best efforts with the Flickr uploader, it seems to have put them up backwards.