Thursday January 26, 2006

Return to work

Or so his constituents hope... after his part time job is over..

Lets have a punchup!

Sun has challenged Dell to a benchmark challenge . Its another sign of our confidence in these products that have won fifty world records ( and counting) and are drawing applause from industry experts. So Dell have until the end of this month to accept the challenge. The brawl will be undertaken in a third party lab using industry standards benchmarks. Lets hope Dell agree to the challenge...

In a dry season, another Peter Robinson book.

I have just read the first story in the second omnibus book of Peter Robinson. The story is called In a dry season . It seems a lot of crime authors take to writing a novel where a suspicous death occured many years ago and in modern times the remains are found and a belated murder hunt starts. So Thornfield reservoir is dried up by the drought during one summer and the village that was left when the reservoir filled up becomes exposed. Banks the chief inspector featured in these books is given the suspect job of finding out what happened. This is where the book gets interesting. What Robinson has done here is interleaved two story lines; the investigation in modern times and a diary that leads up to the death of the person whos remains are found. Banks sidekick Annie who was featured in the first book I read before but this time there is a romantic involvement... Out of all the stories I have read about belated murder investigations I would say this is by far the best. I won't mention anything else about the story so I don't ruin anybody elses read of this book.