A. Skudder

Biggles in space, 9 May 2013

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The premise for this book is a good one: in an obscure corner of the universe various big companies are trying to help one group of primitive aliens win a long-running civil war against another tribe so they can exploit the winners and their land. To do this they are equipped with replica antique weapons for various reasons. The group in this story are all flying replica WWI planes like Sopwith Camels.

It sounds like Biggles in space, but it is easy to forget the space part as it is mostly just a story about how war is hell, which is at least 100 pages too long, and probably 200 pages too long.

The book starts with one of those Tom Clancey-type faux military memos,… Read more

Fits nicely, 28 April 2013

This fits the phone well, and does give some protection from bumps and scratches. The phone isn't cheap so it is worth giving it some sort of protection. The screen cover works well if you fit it right, but it is a bit fiddly to fit, as these things always are. All the necessary buttons and sockets are easily accessible. Reasonable quality for the price.

Good but limited, 28 April 2013

This does make it easy to pick up VBA for Excel but when it came to the thing I really wanted to know (userforms and ActiveX controls) it covered the whole topic in a few pages and I had to make extensive use of various websites to fill in the gaps.

This examples in this book are from an earlier version of Excel than the mixture of 2007 and 2010 that I now use, but everything still works the same way. The only exception is that when Office moved to the ribbon in the 2007 version a lot of stuff that was on the Tools/options menu is now in a different place - accessed through the Excel Options button - but that was easy to find.

Not a bad introduction to the topic. By… Read more