Yearly Archives: 2008


Hello blog!

Hello blog, been a while Only a login away yet seemingly far Best I can do is 140char

Creovising & Inovating

Wow, talk about re-inventing the wheel: The launch title, UNMASKED by Nicola Cornick, a Regency-set historical available from www.eBooks.eHarlequin.com, has been enriched with interactive buttons that hyperlink to Web sites containing photos, historical commentaries, illustrations, sound effects, maps, articles and more, bringing the world of the novel to life without the reader having to leave [...]

ON NOS

Seems to have got to that point where I am not sure what the purpose of this blog is or should be, not that it mattered before, well maybe a little but I seem to be finding many more ways of spreading my digital love. I guess this site can be about aggregating that information [...]

Long article about how it's difficult to read long articles

Is Google Making Us Stupid? Bruce Friedman, who blogs regularly about the use of computers in medicine, also has described how the Internet has altered his mental habits. “I now have almost totally lost the ability to read and absorb a longish article on the web or in print,” he wrote earlier this year. A [...]

Not working

Twitter’s not working, gah. Back to macro-blog

Let's not confuse the medium with a format or system yeah?

Just saw this in the ‘From the Blogs’ section of the Grauniad Review. It references and then rips apart a blog post based on an article from the Times suggesting that ‘Internet book piracy will drive authors to stop writing’. Book piracy on the internet will ultimately drive authors to stop writing unless radical methods [...]

WordPress 2.3.3 tagariffic, and a nice picture

Finally got round to upgrading to WordPress 2.3.3, yey, not quite sure what all the fuss is about regarding the fairly tame square off between WP 2.5 and MT 4. Personally I like WordPress, I feel like I have more control over the system (from a direct access point of view) – that may not [...]

Blogiversary

Done this before but got a couple more to add: Also, apparently I have had 78,135 visitors since records began (June 2005).