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Keep Left
Went to see Michael Moore the other night. A great show, part stand-up comedy, part rant, part game show. He also got extremely pissed about particular attitudes within the crowd (I think that’s what it was about). National Novel Writing month (NaNoWriMo) is coming to a close, and I’m hoping to get to my 50,000…
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Novel Writing
Last month I mentioned that I was taking part in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). It has started and I have laid down the first 2000 words of a master work. It took me 4 hours to write 2000 words and that is cause for alarm. Still, it’s a start and I’m sure that as…
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My first novel
This is the National Novel Writing Month site which encourages buffoons like myself (and some talented people too) to write a 50,000 word novel in the space of a month. Quality is not the aim, but the more noble and artistic pursuit of sheer quantity. It is all explained on the site and I challenge…
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Bob Dole Appreciation Day
“The internet is a great way to get on the net” – Bob Dole, quoted on the spine of the current issue of ‘Practical Internet’.
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attn Lateral
if anyone at Lateral is looking at this – remember, I did it in a single afternoon! Love your site by the way…. added it to my links page (whats_best). saw this (thanks to codestore ) and thought it was a great laugh! I remember how I felt when someone told me my favourite supermarket…
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Living Death in the IT Department?
hmmm…… I’m trying to find a job at the moment but I’m not too sure that I like offices anymore (or if I ever did for that matter). When I think of the offices that I have worked in they have all been crap (except one – which was newly renovated and brilliant). As I…
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New Zealand
StosselAtl: We’ve had lots of great questions, and we’ll only have time for one or two more (sorry Disney 55!). StosselAtl: MMSimon asks: If you could live anywhere besides U.S.A., where would it be? MsGrammar: New Zealand, no question. Before I went, people kept saying the people and the food would be boring. But the…
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was at a pub called the churchill last night…
Lady Astor: “Winston, if I were your wife I’d put poison in your coffee.” Winston: “Nancy, if I were your husband I’d drink it.”