Books first - I promised myself last week to stack up:
- Beautiful Death by Fiona McIntosh (which I read)
- Old City Hall by Robert Rotenberg
- A Decent Ransom by Ivana Hruba
- Pelagia & The Red Rooster by Boris Akunin
- Curse of the Pogo Stick by Colin Cotterill
- Storm Peak by John A Flanagan
- The Redeemer by Jo Nesbø
- Once Were Cops by Ken Bruen
One out of eight is not bad - and besides Beautiful Death was a doorstopper so I plead extenuating circumstances - not helped by the arrival of Peter Corris' Deep Water which jumped ahead of everything else. I'm about half way through it now and it's as good as other reviews are suggesting.
I'll then get back to the queue above - maybe. Yesterday I came back from the airport in Melbourne via Bendigo and a lovely little secondhand bookshop that I've always liked - and The Clan by JR Carroll sort of jumped off a shelf at me, along with another couple of Maigret books and a couple of Jake Arnott's books, and well I stopped then. Just.
On the other hand I've found a couple of fabulous little Firefox extensions which are helping with the perennial problem of keeping your business your own business.
NoScript(link is external) let's me control what scripts can run on my own computer when I visit websites - either permanently yes or no or temporarily yes - and it clears up all the insidious cookies and what not left behind.
Ghostery(link is external) lists the scripts that are running when you visit a website - now that's an eyeopener.
Obviously neither of these can totally stop the appalling behaviour that's going on out there with regard to other people's privacy - but it does make you feel slightly like you've got some control over their abuse.