Thursday, September 16, 2004
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France Telecom came and fiddled about with the wires up the pole over the road, and the crackle on the line has disappeared. My dial-up connection is much much better, more reliable and I always get 45K now. It's only got to last a few more months and then we should be on broadband.
Finished Do Not Pass Go: From the Old Kent Road to Mayfair -- Tim Moore, last night. The book recounts the story of Tim Moore's journey around the Monopoly board of London and is full of anecdotes and trivial about each of the stops on the way. There are a few diversions about how in The World Monopoly championships they actually play for real money, and that all the main line railway terminuses in London were built during Queen Victoria's reign. Even if you have only ever walked down just a few of the Monopoly streets then this book is still very very funny.
Tomorrow it's time to start, The Da Vinci Code -- Dan Brown, which is the book I have actually been waiting to read for ages. It arrived in my Amazon order a while ago and has been staring at me from the shelf say, 'Skip Bond Street, go straight to Mayfair'.
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