Spring has finally well and truly sprung here in north London, and leaf and blossom are everywhere. Quite a spectacular change. Not only that, but the public holiday yesterday featured bright sunshine and heat all day. Here’s the vine by (and above) our front door celebrating Spring…

So what with that and lots of work on a web programming project I have been working away at, there is no book review this week! I have, however, been finally making good progress on the last remaining chapter of Scenes from a Life. In terms of the plotline this fits about 3/4 of the way through, and is a flashback scene to an event that took place some ten years or so before the main sequence. So far I’m happy with progress, though it’s some way away from finishing yet. More news later in the summer…

Also, over the weekend, my faith in geeks was confirmed. For reasons unknown, large numbers of my bookmarks / favourites disappeared from Chrome – not sure when, or how, since I only realised when I went to pick one and it wasn’t there! The normally wonderful feature of Chrome that it synchronises across several devices happened, in this case, to work against me… the missing bookmarks were cheerfully missing from all the different gadgets I tried, since Chrome could synch much quicker than I could stop it… A swift internet search showed me that I was far from being alone in this, and happily there are several geek sites which tell you how to recover them… provided you realise soon enough and don’t panic…

It did occur to me that this was a blind spot for me – and obviously a lot of other people – I happily backup in one way or another my writing, computer code, accounts etc, but it never occurred to me to back up bookmarks. A happy end, on this occasion, though having read other accounts it is clear that some people have not had such good fortune. A triumph for the determination of geekly characters to document such things.