My reading for the first four months of the year started well, but tailed off with a load of coursework in March / April. This is very much a catch-up post, to fill in the blanks! Title Author ISBN Pages
52 Books – Dec 2017 Update
This is a very late post, but I will write it just for completeness. Having left work in June 2017, taken the summer off, then enrolled in an MSc course, and sold the domain name where this blog used to
52 Books – June 2017 update
I confess – June was not a great month for reading. Life in all its complexities (and work in the shape of my bid to escape my then-current employment) got in the way. I read one novel Dodger (ISBN 978-0552563147,
52 Books – May 2017 update
This month was a leaner month reading-wise: two novels and one photography book. I guess it makes the blog post shorter! I’d received the fantastic Magnum Legacy book of Bruce Davidson’s photography (ISBN 978-3-7913-8135-0 and 192 pages) by Vicki Goldberg
52 Books – April 2017 Update
April was a very good month for reading: I finished three novels, three photography books and a full catalogue of a major exhibition by one of Britain’s most accomplished artists. Starting with the last of those, I was fortunate to
52 Books – March 2017 Update
Since my wife and I started sharing Amazon Prime, it has meant that books which I buy now appear on her Kindle, and vice versa. I started, and finished March then by reading two of her Kindle novels. The first
52 Books – February 2017 Update
Introduction I started my second 52books challenge at the start of January 2017. You can read my progress last month here (or by following the #52books tag below), So here are the books which I read in February. Books read
52 Books – January 2017 Update
Introduction For the last four years I’ve kept a list of the books which I have read each year. There was no great thought given to it – just a way of looking back on what my reading had been
Scraping goes off the rails
The art of scraping websites is one beset by difficulties, as I was reminded this week when re-testing a scraper that I built recently. Railway performance As part of my participation in 100 Days of Code I’ve been working
Digging down into Local Data – Openly Local, Democratic Dashboard and more
Have you seen Democratic Dashboard? You really should take a look. This site, set up by the Democratic Audit based in the LSE, has one simple aim: ” … to promote engagement in the electoral process by making an array