Feb 23
Buying a film solely on the basis of being promised stunning visuals is perhaps not always the best of approaches. But since that is what Blu-Ray & HD is all about, I didn’t hesitate in pre-ordering The Fall [Blu-ray] [2008]. You can tell that, at its inception, this film was built around the question “Where would be really cool places to...
Read MoreFeb 17
Let’s get one thing clear from the start. I am not a Greek English Lexicon. Although, judging from my web logs and analytics, many accidentally think I am. The fact that I share a name (at least in search index terms) with a book, led me to consider how much people searching for you online matters and how much you need to protect your search position against...
Read MoreFeb 05
Over the years, I’ve started to become an avid collector of photography books. I love bookshops and the photo book section is always where I head first. Thing is, most books are mainly available online and a photo book isn’t something that is easy to size up online. So, I thought I’d try to review my photos book collection. If nothing else, it...
Read MoreFeb 02
There are so many ways to get to the good stuff on the Internet. Lists, StumbleUpon, optimised search returns etc but there is a truly enormous long-tail of weird/wonderful/dross. I thought it might be amusing to see some of this randomly, ignoring any notion of popularity or context. Sure, I could just surf about, but I had a feeling that I would always...
Read MoreFeb 01
When it comes to reward for effort, writing a book has to feature at the very lowest reaches of the league table. Months of effort and toil on The Beatle Man and I get 46p for every copy sold on Amazon (or other sites). I’m not complaining, such is the way… Recently, I was playing about with the Amazon Affiliate widgets (as is my wont, I like a widget)...
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