Wednesday, July 14, 2004

I'm an uncle! Congratulations to Zoe and Brian on the birth of Tate Hepworth Evans, born on Monday at 1.03pm and weighing 8lb 13.5oz. Hurrah! Mmm... what else. I've been doing a lot of reading lately: in the last few weeks there's been the Armchair Economist (interesting but conceited), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (very good; touching), Peace Kills (terrible; facile), The Secret Life of Bees (a good read), 9-11 (erudite; pleasing), and currently A Certain Chemistry (less funny than the author thinks it is). I also accepted a job with Ubiquity, which I'll start before very long. Californ-eye-eigh here I come...