As part of my writing journey I have finally started to work through one of the “how to” books I have owned for a long time. One of the things the author says is a good thing to do is to come up with a statement of purpose, something to inspire me to carry on,…
It’s Saturday night and for a change I’m not rushed off my feet doing uni work. This is the first weekend in a while where I have nothing planned. I have spent the day sorting pc’s and laptops feels strange to not have looming deadlines. I still have loads to do of course to get…
I just wrote a massive blog styled post and then when I tried to post it, something went wrong and I lost the whole thing….. The rage is threatening to take over, it is fast turning out to be a very frustrating day!
I used to like watching the odd post apocalyptic series or movie, but now it seems they are everywhere. The walking dead the most visible i assume but others are all over. Last night I heard of a series called the last ship that follows survivors of the end of the human race that are…
So, its almost September. Two months until the crazy people start that mad dash to complete 50k words in a month. I have attempted this feat for the last two years and coincidentally both years I have stalled at around 11k words. I am determined that this year I will not fail, so I am…
I was reading the news today on the BBC and noticed their article about the falling numbers in students completing the Computing qualification. It seems that in the last few years there has been a steady decline in the numbers of students completing this course. It’s strange to think that when the Computing course was…
So it’s nearly 1 in the morning and I have a busy day ahead, I had planed an early night because of this but instead I got drew into reading Wizards First Rule by Terry Goodkind. I have read the book several times and it is by far one of my favourite series (Sword of…
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…
I have done it again, nearly a month without posting and although part of that was due to my internet suddenly deciding that despite working for the last few years it would block me from accessing my hosted webspace where this blog is located. So I couldn’t access any of the sites. they were still…
You know I miss going to a video shop, looking for something good then coming home to watch it. Just not the same sitting down and looking for ages at what’s on all of the 500 streaming services. Takes me back to when the kids were little and on a Friday night we would pop…
