Hafnium

The next big thing. Or is it? Some have their doubts.

It'll be interesting to see how this plays out...

 

"Where the body is, there will the eagles be gathered together"

What a surprise: Max Clifford has signed on as Shilpa's representation. (A bigger surprise: that he waited this long.)

 

 

In the meme

There are various book memes that seem to have been around forever...and So You Want to Be a Wizard is number 356 on one of them, a meme apparently native to LiveJournal.  (Here's an example, and here, and here, and here...)

I was glancing at the list today, and an idea came up.  Eventually it'd be interesting to go down that list and tag it to indicate (a) living authors, and (b) living authors with web presences, and (c) living authors whose web presences include blogs.

Later. In my copious free time.  Right now, it's just fun to be in the meme.

The return of the swans

Swans have nested in the little pond behind our house for at least fifty years...perhaps longer. In 2005, one of the pair who'd been coming back to nest every spring suddenly died of natural causes (old age, the local vet thought). His or her mate -- no way to tell which it was; swans are tough to sex -- stayed on the pond for months, returning again and again to the spot where it had last seen its mate alive. It returned last year, too, still looking for its counterpart.

This year it seems not to have come back. But two youngsters have arrived. Here's a minute of video courtesy of YouTube: Swan Trek, theNext Generation...