Snow in moonlight

Still working on physics - but I went downstairs just now and went outside (in my slippers) for a look at the snow. Everything looks quite ethereal and unreal, not least because I don't think we've had any snow for at least the last two years.

And growing at the front of the house I found a red rose, covered in snow. And now I really wish I had that digital camera handy!

I now have a links page that works, which means that more than half of the links on my front page actually lead somewhere now! And just a note, which coincides with Burningbird's article on abolishing blogrolls. The links on my page represent websites that I regularly visit, daily in many cases. Each and every link is a personal recommendation from me to you, dear reader.

Just thought I'd clarify that. Speaking of which...

Radio 4 are broadcasting play adaptations of the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman, which I recommend with a passion. Don't be put off by the fact that the books are stacked in the 8-12yr section of WHSmith, they're superb. I haven't actually listened to the radio plays yet, but I assume they're very good as well. They're being broadcast on three consecutive Saturdays, starting 4th January 2003, so I've missed the first one. You can still listen to it live on the website though, but only if you have the evil RealPlayer. Looks like I'm going to have to install it...

In amongst all the internet surfing I was doing today I found William Gibson's newly-established blog - yes, that William Gibson. I was just scanning through it and on his front page is a little snippet of a review for his (yet to be released) latest book, Pattern Recognition. The review was by Neil Gaiman, which struck me as a little bizarre purely because: (1) I'd never heard of William Gibson before today, (2) I'd never read any of Neil Gaiman's novels before yesterday, when I started reading American Gods, (3) it's only in the last month that I discovered Neil Gaiman's journal, which I now read regularly, and (4) I found William Gibson's site completely randomly, and only worked out that he was an author judging by the information on his weblog. Then a couple of hours later I picked up American Gods and noticed on the front cover a little snippet of a review by William Gibson...

I like these little coincidences :). And as a result of this, Neuromancer is now on my Amazon wishlist. Oh, go on. Buy me something. Like the iPod, or the £350 Macromedia Dreamweaver?