Author: sroot

  • Sharpe's Devil (Bernard Cornwell)

    It’s taken me a month or so to add this to my recent reading list. I didn’t enjoy it as much as the other sharpe books. It is the last in the series, bringing Sharpe and his Sergeant out of retirement to search for a friend who is missing. En route they meet Napoleon, survive…

  • How much email?

    Look at that, 12,345 emails in my gmail in-box. Had to screen shot it, 1-2-3-4-5 has a nice ring to it. 12,345 represents 60% of the near 3GB allowed in a googlemail box and the 5,909 spam messages are only those from the last 30 days. I guess i’ll have to start deleting the some…

  • Running – not always good for your health

    One of the good things about starting the business studies/French course at the local university is that it’s only 5 miles from home. It’s easy to get someone to drop me off there so that I can run home at the end each lesson. I’ve been relatively good at running home since the course started…