Can't believe it's that long. Even harder to believe it was Jan 2003 when I started blogging on Livejournal on the Sourcebook profile. Not that I've been sitting on my hands - I've been doing a gambling automation blog at http://thebotfarm.com for the past year and a half and before that ( Read more... )

Pardon the cross-posting, but don't think I mentioned in this space that a genuine bona fide publisher is planning to publish the Alpha Lab novel (after its been gathering dust for the past 3 or 4 years). Take a look at the preview page on http://sun-rising-poetry.com/alpha.htmRead more... )

Happy New Year to one and all. I know, I know, the year's half over, but I've been a bit busy, what with the new job and all. What's that, you hadn't heard? Well, I was offically out the door of my old place on the 10th Jan and in the new place on the 11th. Now the new job is no sit-at-desk kind of deal. The day I joined I was at an all-day ( Read more... )

I remember reading my kids a story from a ladybird book about the magic porridge pot. All you had to do was say "cook, little pot, cook" and it prepared as much porridge as you wanted, or even too much if you forgot to say "stop, little pot, stop". Now, it's not that I like gambling. Far from it. I detest losing money and get all churned up ( Read more... )

Thanks for good wishes re previous post. Good thing no-one came along really. It was bedlam - banjo and new pickup worked fine, but couldn't manage to cut through the babble of chatter. Didn't actually fluff anything, but made no impact at all. So, performance hormones depleted again for a little while ( Read more... )

well, after the fiasco that was my nano attempt, I've been lying low. Good reasons for not completing, of course - real life intervened and I never got back into it after a lost week. hearty congrats to all those who got to the finish line. now then - went to an open mike night at monkeychews on tuesday, just to check out the talent level. some ( Read more... )

Had a visitor last night, so nano got off to no sort of a start at all. Eeeek. One day down and 1800 words behind target already. Meanwhile my friends list is stuffed with people streaking past the 3,000 mark. So I did a naughty and spent an hour at "work" making a start. The NewNovelist has suggested a basic structure for how the story should ( Read more... )

Nearly a month since I updated, as someone just reminded me. So events of note ( Read more... )

Lets hope the stars are in favourable alignment for Saucebook on Thursday. I have an interview for a mega-job (title starts Global Head of...) at 8:30 in the morning, having reluctantly decided to get back to 5 days a week to cover the funding of two households. Then its off with the suit and onto my lawyer to see whether my flat purchase has ( Read more... )

last weekend in Camden, or would have been had I not done a quick trip to the north-east to see my folks (first time in over a year). I'll miss the buzz of the place, but not the being woken up throughout the night by fights and police sirens. last week I placed my first 999 call (911 for US readers) when a fight broke out at 3am. Some large guy ( Read more... )