May 28 2008
You only live twice.
28th May.
Commander Ian Lancaster Fleming - author, fantasist, banker, journalist, sailor and failed diplomat - would have been 100 today, had he kept off the gin and cigarettes.
The Register, along with a suitably tongue-in-cheek potted biography, reports of a commemorative exhibition at the Imperial War Museum entitled For Your Eyes Only. Hope to make it back to London before it closes.
In the meantime, I’ve been looking for an excuse to post this xkcd.com cartoon for ages.


