My bus journey to work affords me the time to catch up on my subscription feeds using Google Reader from my mobile phone. The interface is specially tailored for the mobile screen, and being above ground means that I can download a whole bunch of stuff as I go, and read it along the way.
The first post I happened upon this morning was from Stephen Fry's wonderful blog. It was also the article I was reading when I arrived at work. The last third remained unread.
It was certainly an enjoyable read. But it was incredibly long. 5,611 words in total, spanning eleven pages of the Word document I've just pasted it into, the purpose of this exercise being to count the words. I was quite impressed with the length of my, er, post last night, but its 614 words pale into insignificance when put alongside Fry's interminable rants. (They were primarily rants in this instance; and I use the word interminable to mean seemingly without end, without casting negative judgment on the associated content. I smiled and laughed out loud on numerous occasions, much to the bemusement, and possibly fear, of my fellow passengers.)
So Fry: that I can get through the rest of my subscriptions on the 40 minute journey to work, please try and curb your enthusiasm and keep the posts a little shorter, there's a good chap.
And the rest of you: subscribe to Fry's blog. It's a joy to behold.
