Category: books

Another Book – Pension Pensées

Does this man have nothing better to do with his time?

Pension Pensées book cover

Here’s the summary:

I make no claim at all to be a cartoonist (let alone any sort of real artist). However, some people seemed to like my cheesy little cartoons (mostly IT-related), idiotic photos, and cheap sarcastic commentary, so I thought that I should start putting some of these ramblings together in the same place.

That place was the Dataholics blog, and much of this book was originally based on that content. Ironically, though, many of the cartoons have now been abstracted for other projects.

I parted company with most of the security industry in 2019 (though the recent book Facebook: Sins & Insensitivities did place me back in that arena, though not as a professional). That is, I supppose, why the Dataholics site has seen less use since then, and why what content has been posted is less like to have been related to IT security. On the other hand, much of it still has a connection to internet ephemera. Some of the content here comes from other blogs such as Parodies Regained while some hasn’t previously been made public at all.

And here’s the link…

Hands of the Craftsman album – expanded

The album Hands of the Craftsman has now been expanded to include some of the additional material made available in the book of the album. The number of tracks has been doubled, but the price hasn’t! That’s because although there are a couple of tracks there that were recorded recently, most of the additions are still from the 1980s sessions that were afflicted with ‘sticky shed syndrome’, which degraded the quality of the master tapes. (I’m not claiming that they were that good to start off with!)

In general, the additions weren’t specifically written for the revue, but were either written around the same time, or were written before or after but fit the theme.

The expanded version is still on Bandcamp: I may add the new tracks to streaming platforms in due course, but that’s not a priority. I expect to be long departed by the time Spotify etc. make enough out of me to send a payment…

David Harley