I have been regular (until now) with posts on this blog and I have slowly moved forward a bit with writing. I have been watching a motivational video every day and it helps a bit. I do need to start planning my time better so that I am making more time for actual writing. I…
My last post was on Oct 9th and was full of plans and hope. that hasn’t come to pass as I am sure you are shocked to learn. Instead a combination of lack of planning (despite starting at a time that gave me plenty of time) not feeling 100% and other commitments I haven’t managed…
Finally there has been some movement on the Starweb book by Warren James Palmer, after so long we will get to see what happened to Moss, Jenifer and all the gang. In a previous post I talked about the Dyason series when the author was going to re release them under a kickstarter, well that…
I am behind on reading my magazines but just started on my .net ones. One of the small news items that I saw was really interesting, so I thought I would share it here. The idea is that children go missing all the time and making use of the digital age the guys at notfound…
Get off your ass and start writing, seriously! This is what I need to be tattooed on my forehead, so every morning when I look in the mirror it’s the first thing I will see. I have a dream…. I am sure someone somewhere said that. My dream however is to be a published writer….
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…
This is it, tomorrow night I am off to see Star Trek – Into Darkness, from the trailers it looks amazing, but then I am biased as I love Star TRek. Going to see it with my best friend, who also likes Star Trek but doesn’t really like the direction the last film took, his…
I can be quite an opinionated person, for those of you that know me you are probably rolling your eyes now…. I was reading a news item in the November copy of Writing Magazine called Name Dropping. It was talking about Charles Dickens giving his characters strange last names and then talking about celebs calling…
I have an impressive collection of “how to” books and every time I am out and I see a new one I will invariably buy it. I flick through them and add it tot he shelf. As part of the drive to actually do something now I am going to work through them. Maybe this…