Because i'm a Nerd

[vin_petrol]

i am going to see if i can add an entry to my live journal whilst sat in the sun in my back garden. I am using the web browser on my phone. it seems to work ok. No other plans for today. Just sit in the sun with Trash. I am reading Sharpes Prey. He fights the french. Huzzah! Maybe out for drinks tonight.

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[everild.livejournal.com]

You evil cheating smoggies are so going to get your arses whipped tomorrow! (Or at least I hope you are, charitable creature that I am ;-> )

yeah

[resyk.livejournal.com]

I have tried the livejournal client for palmOS.. lordy but it is crap.

I think if someone really wants to know where I'm at, my mood or what music I am listening too - they can phone me. The ultimate live journal.

Re: yeah

[steer.livejournal.com]

Ah... but vince isn't using the LJ palm client - he's using the phone web browser. (The palm client isn't THAT bad but you can't read comments so it's odd).

Re: yeah

[resyk.livejournal.com]

yes, i know he is - he doesn't have a palm. it was kinda the LJing from a portable device i was banging on about. what kind of palm do u have then Steer? the palm client on my old mono VX is hard work in anything other than direct sunlight outdoors.

Re: yeah

[steer.livejournal.com]

I've a knackered old palm m105. It's a bit clunky and slow and new stuff (or colour stuff) doesn't work on it. But it does have a foldy keyboard which is sex on springs.

[steer.livejournal.com]

Have you read any Hornblower? He rocks. He ALWAYS fights the french. Practically never fights anyone else apart from sometimes the Spanish. Confusion to Robespierre. Confusion to me.

[vin_petrol]

No, I've not read any Hornblower ... yet. Bernard Cornwell pretty much said that Sharpe was a "land based Hornblower". I have read a couple of Alexander Kent's, but I wasn't impressed. The man all Sharpe readers tend to suggest next is Patrick O'Brian, with his Aubrey/Maturin series. These are sea based adventures. So, if I ever see any of those cheap in a second hand bookshop I'll buy them. I really do have enough books at the moment! Then again, there are no other Napoleonic era fiction books in my heap at the moment, so maybe I can justify one. Don't tell Trash!
I believe there's a film due RSN of O'Brian's "Master and Commander", so I had best read it before the film comes out so I can sound all authoritative :-)

[resyk.livejournal.com]

I too have had Patrick O'brian recommended to me. Who needs bookshops when there is ebay..

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