C is often telling me about how good an author Neil Gaiman is, but apart from his TV series Neverwhere and his biography of Douglas Adams I’ve not yet found time to explore his writing.

Until today when someone pointed me towards a post on his blog explaining his frustrations with Vista, and how it doesn’t work. Well, yes [avoids the obvious anti-Microsoft rant]. He suggests two options – get a Macbook Air (a very lovely and much coveted thing), or switch to Linux Ubuntu. In my opinon, either would be miles better than what he already has. And having used both Mac and Linux OSs I would never, ever return to the clunkiness of Windows.

So, obviously he writes sense. Maybe I should seek out a book …

On Friday I had the great pleasure of being at a book signing and talk with one of my favourite authors – Jasper Fforde.

If you’ve not read any of his books (and I highly recommend that you do), there’s two series which he writes – the Nursery Crime Division and the Thursday Next series. Friday’s event was to promote the latest Thursday Next novel First Among Sequels.

It was a great evening – Jasper Fforde is as funny in real life as his writing is in his books – full of talking and questions (I even asked one myself – aren’t I brave?!). It was great to learn about the way he writes, his love of puns and the slightly scary way in which things he has written seem to be coming reality …