The long dark
Some people hate winter. I like it. I like being able to rug up, hide under blankets with a hot water bottle. I like the chill on the air and the sense of losing feeling in my wrists while typing....
View ArticleArmchair criticism: Star Trek VI – The Undiscovered Country
The Undiscovered Country (TUD), was the last of the “original” cast Star Trek movies. Directed by Nicholas Meyer (of many movies and books fame, particularly the best of the Star Trek movies, Wrath of...
View ArticlePrinting postcards on the Xerox CM305DF printer
This is potentially a bit of a hack, and not the way to print postcards. However, it worked for me so I’m documenting for future reference. On the printer: Settings > Tray > Tray1 > Paper >...
View ArticleEditing space
I’ve been stuck in “Editing Space” for the past two months, working on chapters 1-3 of The Tome. Editing Space is curved in on itself, and time doesn’t quite work the same as out here in Normal Space....
View ArticleSeance (2011)
Seance is described as a mystery thriller, and in the 1970’s might have passed muster, but in the second decade of the twenty first century, the movie is a grindingly slow affair that could actually...
View ArticleVampire Mac
My Macbook Pro is a vampire, and has sucked every little bit of love I had for Apple out of me. All that remains is a sense of disappointment and loss. I’ve loved Apple since my father brought home our...
View ArticleThe Strange Game of Hyde & Seek
Nathan Hill’s The Strange Game of Hyde & Seek is a riff on Robert Louis Stevenson‘s immortal work “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde”, published 130 years ago this year. We open with a...
View ArticleShould have been an Olympian
Just completed the book, edit 10, which clocks in at 78,000 words. It’s a bit of an anticlimax to be honest, especially in these days of Th€ O£ympic$ ©®™ and highly trained athletes crossing the finish...
View ArticleMoi Rools 4 Ritng
Written as a reminder for editing purposes. Nothing to see here except cringe-worthy mistakes I’ve been guilty of in the past. This is a growing list which may be categorised and expanded at a later...
View ArticleMacBuntu on a white macbook
So I’m playing around with my old white macbook. It’s a 2008 macbook with a DVDRW and maxed out memory (I think). It was running Snow Leopard up until last week when I tried out Ubuntu 14.04. The...
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