Bye bye Ecotricity

It's so easy to change supplier! I've just found another 100% renewable power company, changed over in less than two minutes and saved quite a lot of money! Wonderful.

Of course, in an ideal world, we'd be using cold fusion or space-generated microwave-transmitted power, all controlled by a caring and responsive state-owned supplier, but in the meantime, I'm happy with this.

Not much blogging today - marking, present-organising and our staff Drunkening. Hope you all watched Dirk Gently last night. A qualified success, I thought - worth a series.

How to write:

BBC4 is showing a (rather truncated) one-off adaptation of Douglas Adams's lesser-known but utterly wonderful novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.

Huzzah for the BBC!

At long last. Douglas Adams wrote the wonderful The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio/tv series/novels, but also a couple of existential science/philosophy detective novels featuring Dirk Gently which have been crying out for a television version for decades. This is why I pay my licence fee.

BBC4 will also dramatise Adams's 1987 novel about anti-hero Dirk Gently next year. Adams was writing a third Dirk Gently book, The Salmon of Doubt, at the time of his death in 2001.

(Though I don't see him as an anti-hero at all).