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Hacked
Sorry, it appears my Livejournal account was hacked. Hope you've not been taken in by any of the... well, I've no idea what it all was 'cos it was in some strange foreign language. -
The splendid and nice take over the asylum
I’m back from the Lincoln steampunk festival, Asylum, so named because it started off in a building built for the insane, and I had a revelation there ( Read more... ) -
A Writer Not Writing
I’ve not blogged in a long time ( Read more... ) -
Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010
My version of office is saying I've 28 days to activate. The shop can give me a new product key for a year's worth of use, but I kind of want a more permanent solution. So I thought I'd ask for advice?
Is going to Open Office wise?
Buying Microsoft Office?
Paying the £30 a year?
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Car Stereo
So, my car, a rather fetching, pink Honda Jazz, only had a CD player, a format that is well and truly being bypassed much like vinyl. (I know, I know, there will be collectors who say that you can’t get the music quality from anything other than a shiny disk or what you need for that real genuine experience is a string quartet in the backseat, but ( Read more... ) -
Three Books
At the end of the film The Time Machine, Filby and the Housekeeper realise that three books are missing from the shelf. They have been taken into the future ( Read more... ) -
The Bechdel Test
There was an interesting talk at Redemption on the Bechdel Test. It’s the one that checks whether films have a) two named female characters, who b) have a conversation with each other that c) doesn’t involve men. Originally it was a cartoon by Alison Bechdel, a comment on the under representation of women in Hollywood films, and I think it really ( Read more... ) -
In defence of wannabe writers
Referring to someone as a ‘wannabe’ writer (or a ‘wannabe’ anything) is insulting. It’s definitely used in writing circles to refer to those who aren’t really going to contribute to a group. I’ve used it myself. We don’t want wannabes in this group, because we want to talk about ‘real writing’, etc ( Read more... ) -
Good place writing, bad place technologically
I seem to be in a good place with my writing (although this morning was blood from a stone). There’s a theory that when you finished something, you should put it in a drawer for a few weeks, so that you can come back to it afresh. I seem to be handing them to beta-readers and then getting on with something else, which is very productive. I’ve a ( Read more... )
