8 Mile Style
I read an article today about how Eminem's music publisher is suing Apple for using one of his songs to promote iTunes. It was interesting because it referred to 8 Mile Style, whom I had never heard of. I always thought Eminem started life at Interscope Records, working for Dr. Dre.

However, I visited 8 Mile Style's website, which has a bit of history on it. It's the classic story of two brothers, Jeff and Mark Bass, who promoted Eminem, and got him to the attention of Interscope Records.

Jim Giraffe
I've just finished a great book called Jim Giraffe by Daren King, which is a story about a morally reprehensible ghost giraffe that lives in the narrator's wardrobe. It's a very good book. When I bought it in London with my sister Dana, we actually read the first chapter together on a London Underground train between Oxford Circus and Notting Hill Gate, giggling like schoolchidren the whole way.

Jim has started his own website, and you can read the first chapter of his book here.

Do I have Asperger's Syndrome?
I've just started reading an excellent book that I bought while on holiday in London called
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon.

It's a nice enough story, but the thing that has touched me the most is that the boy who narrates the story suffers from a form of Autism - Asperger's Syndrome that sounds eerily like something I think I have. He's incapable of emapthising with other people for the most part (something I share to some extent) but he also does some things (like multiplying large numbers and adding up the value of letters in people's names) which I thought that I alone did. People with Asperger's also have incredibly high IQ's and like to do things in particular orders.

I've been reading about it all morning, and I think I have Asperger's Syndrome to some degree. Anyway, my sister Dana, who is a psychiatrist, is back in Dubai in March, and I'll have her assess me properly then.