"The Code Book" by Simon Singh combines coding cyphers and historical events. The book is going through various cyphers and codes, including the almost unbreakable Vigenère cipher which Charles Babbage (Difference Engine guy) finally cracked, but didn't publish either because he was stopped by the British Military, or, like with many other things, he just couldn't be bothered, so Frederick Kasiski got the credit.
Letters in the nineteenth century cost a shilling to send a hundred miles, but newspapers were free, so people put pinpricks under letters on the front page and sent newspapers instead.
Still reading "Imajica" by Clive Barker on my Kindle. This is a book I never want to end. When I finish it, I just restart it.
I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog, which you can see here. It only shows on the .com site but not on others. C'est la vie.
The music is "Sunday Papers" by Joe Jackson
Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories
I am not sure if you are aware of my writing on Vocal, but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:
- The Plagiaristic Poetry Series - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines
- Another Raven - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"
- The Cleaner - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special
- The King Of Elfland's Daughter - A Wonderful Book By Lord Dunsany
- An Owl In A Towel - A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl
- Barter Books - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick
- God Knows I'm Good (I Really Do) - Thoughts on Vocal Writing
- The Accidental Book - Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book
- Call Me Les - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer, and this is her Instagram
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