One of the mountain of books I picked up in Haye-on-Wye last year (in fact exactly a year ago as it was my wedding anniversary on the weekend) was Darkwalker on Moonshae by Doug Niles. I didn't realise it, but according to Wikipedia it was not only the first ever Forgotten Realms novel but, by some wierd loop-hole quirk, also the first official ( Read more... )

I've been reading A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Not bad ( Read more... )

Wow! It's been ages since I felt the need to vent in public. I've been kind of busy ( Read more... )

Well, Perry Rhodan has gone by the wayside too. It was just so... DULL! I felt really bad. That's two ejections I've pulled in a row but then I picked up 'A Writer's Tale' by Russell T Davies and Ben Cook. I can't put it down and it made me realise that there's no point struggling with a book and making myself read it just because ( Read more... )

After realising the other day that outside of the games industry I'm only qualified to flip burgers I've decided to start trying to expand my skill set a tad, beginning with some web design. Hell, I'm never going to be an MySQL, PHP or Java programmer but I can do the graphics, Flash and HTML and with a bit of CSS, DHTML, XHTML and Javascript ( Read more... )