I keep reading articles talking about the death of the printed book as the Ebook revolution continues. It always makes me smile. Given the calls when the DVD was released that CD’s were a dead format and the same calls when BluRay was standardised that the DVD was dead. yet both formats are being produced…
Good Morning all In 1977 two momentous events took place, they were as follows : NASA launched the Voyager 1 spacecraft, and it is currently the man made object furthest from the Earth. At the moment it is in the “magnetic Highway” which is at the very edge of our solar system, it reached this…
That time of year has finished again. Our favorite holiday in this house. Our kids have grown up and had kids of their own but this doesn’t stop us from celebrating Christmas like we always have. For the last few months (or so) we have been watching Christmas movies. Decorations were up in November before…
I know what I have to do….. I know when I need to do it by….. and yet it is a day until the start of NaNo and although I have done significantly more planning than other years I still don’t think I have done enough, I wanted a fully planned out novel this time…
Growing up I loved to read, as I still do. One of my favourite series from that time is the Dyason Series written by Warren Palmer. It consists of three books : Minds of the Empire Dominator Third Player The books follow Moss Pendragon as he escapes the ruins of London after an alien…
Well obviously the “August” challenge is out of the window, from the beginning I didn’t stick to it like the last time. I may have to try again another month? Problem is I am getting ever closer to the day I start back at Uni for my final year, which is going to be really…
I have made a post previously about the monthly card I pay for with Cineworld. Last year I saw 80 films and I was aiming to beat that this year. So far this year I have seen 45 films and its only June, people at work and friend laugh at how much I am at…
Since late September I have been planning for this years NaNo. For once I am actually managing to keep up the momentum, I have my plans for the NaNo novel underway and I am managing to keep posting on here, so for once I am hopeful. I am also going to try and Vlog my…
This story seems to be making the rounds at the moment, a student in the US is raging at his teacher. Not sure what happened before one of the students turned on the camera but he seems to be taking offence at the way the teach is delivering the learning. Giving out packets of information…
In a move that will save them 30 million euros Extramadura is replacing the governments computers with 40,000 linux based computers. This is the second largest public sector migration to Linux. Although Linux will never take the lead from Microsoft it is nice to see large scale migrations to Linux like this, it says something…
