Archive for the 'Written Word' Category

Digital Library

10/11/2005

One of the reasons I’m an exponent of print options is because I often don’t get time to read everything online when I first see them, so I print them to PDF and save a copy to read later. Originally, I would simply find time to read them and, once that was done, delete them. [...]

WriAShorStorWe Update

1/11/2005

Okay, my lack of posting could be down to me writing furiously for the previously mentioned Write a Short Story Week (WriAShorStorWe), or it could be down to the fact that I’ve been busy and what time I’ve had I’ve spent reading Eldest (review shortly).
Anyway, for those interested, Matthew over at Defective Yeti has got [...]

WriAShorStorWe

26/10/2005

Not to be outdone by the legendary National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), Defective Yeti is launching the Write A Short Story Week (WriAShorStorWe) for those people unable to manage the 1700 words a day over 30 days that the former requires. WriAShorStorWe involves completing a 5000 word story in five days (that’s 1000 words [...]

NaNoWriMo 2005

11/10/2005

The National Novel Writing Month 2005 is nearly upon us (it starts midnight 1st November). I entered last year and failed miserably, I don’t think I’ll be entering this year, but I think it’s such a great idea I’m going to promote it anyhow. If you don’t fancy writing a novel, don’t let [...]

Chinese Fire Drill

27/08/2005

I was reading an interview of James Howard Kunstler over at The Morning News (which was far less interesting than I anticipated) when I came across a phrase that sounded vaguely familiar, and to which I didn’t know the exat mean of, so I went to look it up.
The phrase was Chinese fire drill. [...]

Changes to Reading

31/07/2005

I’ve been meaning to give the reading page a bit of an overhaul for ages and now I’ve started. I say started because it’s not finished, I would like some more options and functionality and, to be honest, the whole process needs to be easier to handle on the backend. It’s taken me [...]

Potter Update

27/07/2005

Apologies to anyone who visits this site and isn’t a Harry Potter fan, I will get back to other subjects soon. Anyway, I’ve been flying through (once I got so far I was hooked, I actually had to talk myself into putting it down to go to bed Monday night) and have finished the [...]

Potter Power

26/07/2005

I finally started the new Harry Potter book last weekend. Being out of the country for the actual release, you may be forgiven for thinking that I missed all the hype, but I was still keeping track of how well it was doing and how people had queued at all hours to buy it [...]

Misplaced Pride and Prejudice

20/07/2005

I like to think that we live in an enlightend and open-minded world and at a point in time when we’ve learned to embrace different views, every now and again you read something that shows that while the majority of people have common sense, some, don’t.
That’s right folks, a school has been forced to abandon [...]

Book Trader

5/07/2005

One of the things I thought about when building List Books was our desire to hang on to books. This is an argument I have faced from some of my friends and colleagues: I keep my books, why would I want to sell them? I keep my books too, but why? How [...]