Jan 22
Quiet round here. I’m editing the Beatle Man. Its going OK. In the re-read I made myself laugh. I take that as a good sign. I’m at Chapter 11 and I’ve come to one of the first and biggest excisions. Dropping a character and a small sub-plot. Its strangely painful but, I believe, as necessary as the original inclusion was pointless.I should complete...
Read MoreJan 15
Hey wow, look at me, typing into this computer, blogging if you don’t know. I’ve got qualifications you know, I know so much stuff, I am the modern man, OK, not in that metrosexual way, but I am a man of technology, I know stuff, I can do stuff, I am going for the record for the most link to Wikipedia from any blog ever. Beat that!And yet, I am...
Read MoreJan 15
Hope the subject line didn’t put you off, couldn’t think of anything suitably pithy to summarise what I wanted to write about. Lets get the background out of the way. We have the Internet crammed with great information repositories (and even more rubbish ones), we have high-speed, high availability broadband/wi-fi, we have convergent mobile devices, we...
Read MoreJan 10
There are those among my reader(sic) that believe my love of Albert Camus comes from a teenager’s desire for pretentious chic or, at best, some sort of angsty, pseudo-philosophical hankering. ( And anyway, if I had wanted to be pretentious for the sake of it, I was reading Ionesco too in those days, and you only read that in French. Sadly, this is no longer an...
Read MoreJan 02
As someone would have said if he were still alive, the Internet is big. Very big. (he may have even said it while he was alive, he was like that). I would add that, if you’re not careful, it can be pointlessly big. Lets face it, the way most of us use the Internet is a bit like the Monopoly view of London, round and round the same set of places, rarely drifting...
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