Computing update

Well, I have Windows 7 running on the laptop and set up more or less how I like it, after rather more messing about and rebooting than it should have taken.  I also still have a hopelessly stuck Ethernet cable hanging out of the side, which makes me feel more useless than usual.

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Don’t mind me, I’m just messing around with Windows Live Writer and a plugin for Flickr.

CC Finlay, The Demon Redcoat

Final volume in the trilogy about the American War of Independence with witchcraft.

The protagonist, Proctor Brown, has to leave his wife and newborn daughter behind and travel to Europe, in the hope of tracking down and neutralizing the threat of the Covenant. Along the way, he crosses paths with John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Lord Gordon of Gordon riots fame -- getting caught up in the riots in the process. (Did Charles Dickens not make up Barnaby Rudge? I always thought he did.)

It all wraps up rather suddenly in the end, but on the whole it's a satisfactory ending to the trilogy.