Sad writing magazine news

Some sad news in the world of writing and magazines. It’s not like people found out from any kind of announcement, I hadn’t seen an official announcement on the internet. The latest issue came out and in the editor’s message he broke the news that this magazine was the last and the publisher had decided…

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Student lecturing the teacher :)

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…

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Creative thinking….

Where do you do your creative thinking? I have an office and this is where I should be doing my work but I made the mistake of filling my “man cave” with stuff! When I am in here supposed to be working I end up watching TV or browsing or playing games. Occasionally I do…

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The death of the book – Not!

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…

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Sleep……

Don’t you hate it when you know you have a busy say but cannot get to sleep, I went up and did fall asleep but woke up not long after and proceeded to not be able to get back to sleep. I shifted around for a while and then just came down stairs. Now I…

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Sleep and Computers

I should be asleep…….. I have Uni in the morning and yet it is 2am I have spent my time re installing the OS on my New (old) HP 2710p This is a Laptop/Tablet. I love this thing, I got it as I do not like using the netbook so I am giving that to…

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Writing Conferences

I am a subscriber in three writing magazines and when I am reading through I am forever seeing advertisements for writing conferences or retreats. It’s frustrating as I really like the look of these but for someone like me they are out of my reach. Most of them are down south, there don’t appear to…

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Procrastination

2 1/2 months since the last post… I named this blog well. Looking back through the posts it’s a lot of me making plans that don’t seem to go anywhere. Wish I could work out a way to get this done.

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1977 A year to rememeber

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…

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This Blog

July 2011….. This is when I started this Blog, and from reading the first post I was proclaiming myself taking control of my procrastination and doing something with my life. If you were to scroll through the post chances are you would periodically see the same declaration, I would really like to know why committing…

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