I often remark to my grown up kids (18,19) at the lack of skills with computers in their generation, when I was their age I was playing around in DOS and writing silly little programs in basic, that is the kind of thing that got me into wanting to work with computers. If the PC…
I would love to use a tool to monitor the time I waste looking through social networking websites, Facebook or twitter. I can sit at my machine and seem to do nothing but refresh the page and look at crap….. then I wonder why I get nothing done. I have tried quitting several times but…
I have spent the last few weeks watching videos on Readers and eInk displays. I have a Kindle Scribe coming and today I have just ordered the Remarkable Paper Pro. A very expensive device and between the two that’s over 1k I have spent in a couple of purchases. I am banking a lot on…
So I was a bit premature saying I could try this for August, the main reason I consistently fail NaNo is lack of planning. Added to that I am going to be helping a friend edit his book over the next few weeks so I think I need to use the time to do some…
Just an update, and as you can imagine it isn’t good news. From all of the resolutions I have made the only two that seems to be getting held to is posting on here, but that is due to the new (old) Laptop I now have which I love to use. The other is the…
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…
Spoiler alert, there may be things in here you may not want to know so read on with caution. Easy to please… Its a running joke with a couple of my friends that when it comes to TV and Film I am easy to please, despite what they think it isn’t that I have bad…
Because I have a splash of OCD it has always bothered me that some of my book collections are different formats or different sizes. As I like to keep my books and am building a nice collection for certain series I want to make sure I have a really nice, uniform collection. I am wanting…