Which is your favorite Penguin book/title?

Penguin Parade @ Museum Meermanno

Penguin Official Website

Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred & Other Contemporary Sources (Penguin Classics)

What is the start page of your browser?

The Carta Marina (latin: the book of the sea) is the earliest map over the Nordic countries containing details and placenames. It is in woodcut with nine blocks giving total dimensions of 1.70×1.25 m (height×width) and was created by the Swede Olaus Magnus (1490–1557), temporarily on diplomatic visit in Rome for the Swedish government. However, this situation turned out to be permanent (because his brother Johannes Magnus got in a religious feud with Gustav I of Sweden).

Wikipedia contributors, "Carta marina," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carta_marina&oldid=112203446 (accessed March 25, 2007).

No, your eyes are not deceiving you.

(At least, for those of you who do not use cookies on my site, and who don't see any colorful style)

mvblog has a new style - "Basic" - which basically has nothing :)

With all this lovely Spring weather, the need to start on my garden was ever present. So, combined with the gifts I received from my work colleagues and some new stuff, I have managed to do some serious gardening.

I think this was the first time in a loooooooooooong time that I actually mucked in the dirt. Last time around must have been about 20 years ago, if not longer!

Of course, I had to make some photos of the amazing results: Gardening @ flickr

(and now I'll just have to keep my fingers crossed that all the bulbs I planted will actually appear)

[via Bartsspace]

1. Can you cook? Yes, quite well I hope.

2. What was your dream growing up? To become a knight.

3. What talent do you wish you had? Singing.

4. Favourite place? Home.

5. Favourite vegetable? Broccoli

6. What was the last book you read? The Good German by Jospeh Kanon.

7. What zodiac sign are you? Pisces.

8. Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? None.

9. Worst Habit? Lazy.

10. Do we know each other outside of Livejournal/blog? Nopes.

11. What is your favourite sport? Tennis.

12. Do you have a Negative or Optimistic attitude? Optimistic.

13. What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me? Talk about Thursday Next.

14. Worst thing to ever happen to you? Nothing so far, want to keep it that way.

15. Tell me one weird fact about you. Cannot play volleyball because of an odd break in wrist.

16. Do you have any pets? None.

17. Do you know how to do the Macarena? Thankfully, no!

18. What time is it where you are now? 12:30 midday.

19. Do you think clowns are cute or scary? Scary.

20. If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be? Slimmer figure.

21. Would you be my partner in crime or my conscience? Conscience.

22. What colour eyes do you have? Greenish grey.

23. Ever been arrested? Nopes.

24. Bottle or Draft? Draft.

25. If you won £10,000 today, what would you do with it? Buy AppleMac computers.

26. What kind of bubble gum do you prefer to chew? Cinnaburst.

27. What’s your favourite bar to hang at? Irish pub around the corner.

28. Do you believe in ghosts? Nopes.

29. Favourite thing to do in your spare time? Reading.

30. Do you swear a lot? I do, unfortunately.

31. Biggest pet peeve? Dried up pens.

32. In one word, how would you describe yourself? Jolly.

33. In one word, how would you describe me? Friendly.

34. Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you? Go ahead :)

Feel free to repost/answer!

Inspired by this Lifehacker post, I have decided to clean my keyboard(s) tonight. I'll even try to bring home my work keyboard (which is technically my own).

Grossed out by all these vivid descriptions and photos, my keyboards will be shiny and clean again!

Anyone interested in a step-by-step photo session?