Yes. It’s that time of year again – for the nth consecutive time in a row you have achieved your goal of getting to the end of the year without sitting in a clock tower muttering to yourself as you reload your rifle. But don’t relax just yet! Staying on your guard during the twelfth [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Writings category.
It’s Safe to Insult Certain People. Apparently.
Coverage of the recent Olympics has made me realise that despite the fact that Political Correctness is widespread and pretty much ingrained in Western society, there are still 2 groups of people that we can still be patronising and rude to without any comebacks. I don’t know if this is a loophole or whether the [...]
Re: The Recent Outrages
FAO: Mr Chodsley, CTO Dear Mr Chodsley, I am writing to you, as my section head, to tender my resignation and to give you the reasons I am doing so in the hope that you will be able to use my comments to further improve the companies image and policies. Having worked here for 10 [...]
Abandon Blog
I fancied a change from regular stuff today, so I decided to post a book review to my other site: Bookstuff. This was space that I got for free from WordPress.com when I signed up with them (very useful if you don’t want the hassle of finding a domain and maintaining it yourself) and it [...]
Asking Questions
A few years ago, when the internet was new and shiny and GeoCities were the place to be, two men wrote instructions and advice on asking questions the smart way. (Eric S Raymond and Rick Moen, in case you were curious). This was because, back then, internet forums and message boards were still relatively new [...]
50 (+1) Tools For Writing
Avid readers of this blog (and I know that there’s at least one: hello, whoever you are) will have seen that I posted advice to anyone wanting to write a novel. Or anything really. I still believe that those ideas hold true, but they are not the only tools available. While looking for similar pages [...]
