Posts Tagged ‘douglas adams

12Feb

Analysts – What’s wrong with those people?

Posted by Frank Koehntopp as Blogging

Welcome back!You know, as an employee of a publicly traded company you’re constantly being told you need to do better to support reaching the company’s financial goals, in order to satisfy the analysts’ demands.
I’m starting to believe (hah!) that’s not such a good idea. I’ve always been a sceptic, but what I read in today’s [...]

How great is that – finally The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy is available as an iPhone app!
(Well, that in the 4 other books in the trilogy)

That and the C64 Emulator, and all in one week – fantastic! Get it NOW!

One more thing:
““Enhanced” version of the apps (which will be free upgrades) will be released [...]

Not sure what to make of this – it seems that Eoin Colfer has been asked to write a sequel to Douglas Adams’ famous SciFi series.
“Penguin announced today that it is to publish the sixth novel in the ever-more increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. Eight years after the tragically early death [...]

16Dec

Douglas Adams – Hyperland

Posted by Frank Koehntopp as Blogging

15Mar

Douglas Adams plays Pink Floyd

Posted by Frank Koehntopp as Music

It was Douglas Adams's 54th birthday (or it would have been, were he still alive..) on March 11th.
Reading Industrial Technology & Witchcraft (german), I found references to Douglas playing guitar during a Pink Floyd concert:
"Adams's official biography shares its name with the song "Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyd. Adams was friendly with their [...]


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