I used to say that my reading came and went. At times I devoured books, at other I rarely read anything else than stuff online.

No more. English isn’t my native language, so I’m always looking to further expand it. What better way than reading books?

Also, it’s obviously something I enjoy.

I decided to pay a visit to the city of Lankhmar in the fantasy world of Nehwon, created by sword and sorcery legend Fritz Leiber (1910-1992). A bookstore recommended the Fantasy Masterworks series and The First Book of Lankhmar, which felt like a great place to start. More

I’ve updated to version 3.0 of Steve Smith’s Tiger Admin for Wordpress, and it looks wonderful. A lot of nuisances have been fixed, such as the trackback form, and the overall style is a lot easier on the eye. The font is smaller though, which might or might not be a bother to you, but I don’t mind. It’s still sweet and stylish.

Tiger Admin 3.0 also offers better support for lots of plugins. For instance, if you have many plugins activated that have options pages, the top menu now works better, in part because of the smaller font of course. I’m also happy to see that 3.0 and Ultimate Tag Warriors plays nicely, they did before as well but it didn’t look this good.

The one thing I did find was in the category box on the post screen. I still think that field can be improved around the Add category input box. There might be other things as well, I’ve just started to play around, but I’m pleased.

Head over to Ordered List and download Tiger Admin 3.0. Do you like it?

This is the fourth time I’ve started to write about The Scar. Not that I find it hard to phrase or anything, it just keeps slipping since I have so bloody many things to do and a schedule from Hell, as in Hell.

Perdido Street Station, by author China Miéville, was truly a masterpiece which you all know by now (shame on you otherwise). That book review was a lot harder to write because the book is written on a whole different level, and also introducing the twisted world of Bas-Lag. Perdido Street Station is, on top of that, pretty hard to grasp and not for those of you with poor English.

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I wrote a review of the ImageManager plugin for Wordpress and preceding that I announced that I would write about the blogging software. Sort of implying that I would review more plugins I guess, which was exactly what I had in mind.

Matt “Mr. Boss Man” Craven had other plans. He’s put a devious filter on tdhedengren.com that steals every plugin review I write (just one more so far) and publishes at The Blog Herald! And you know what, there’s nothing I can do about it!

Well, besides raking in the cash of course. Maybe I’ll write some more…

My friend Gax lent me Perdido Street Station by China Mieville, accompanied by lots of nice words about the novel. However, he never did finish reading it so I’ll just have to return it so that he can regain his pride after I’m flogging him here in public.

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Nintendo DS is a lovely little thing. This summer it has stolen a lot of my otherwise book-labeled time, which is fine of course. The past year the question of which portable console to have in your bag hasn’t even been worth considering since the PSP’s been bleak as even, and the DS plays Game Boy Advance games.

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Despite what I’ve heard and read, I went to see Superman Returns (IMDB) the past weekend. Being a fan of the older Superman movies I’ve dreaded this for some time, especially since Batman Begins left me with mixed feelings.

Brandon Routh is the new Superman (and Clark Kent of course), not much of a match for Christopher Reeve though. Routh feels pretty uncharismatic and I’m not impressed. Lois Lane is portrayed by Kate Bosworth, and she’s doing a pretty good job I guess. However, the relationship between Superman, Lane and James Marsden’s Jerry White feels a bit, well, soapy.

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I’ve been meaning to write this post for a couple of days now, but something is holding me back. Reviewing books is not always easy, but this time it’s really hard.

You might take that as something positive, that critically acclaimed Isabel Allende’s Zorro: A Novel touches on several planes. You might also reason that it’s an uncertain piece of work, lacking focus - or perhaps stained with downright bad parts.

Neither is true.

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Welcome back, Mr. Mario. How I have missed you.

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