Stop hitting people, stop touching them as you walk by, don’t barge between them, don’t swing your lunchbox. Sit still. Use your knife and fork. Put your fork in the proper hand. Use your napkin not your sleeve! Sit up, sit down, don’t talk with your mouth full. Stop saying “no” before I’ve even finished… Continue reading Mother Of The Year
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“I Bin Sayin’ It. I Bin Sayin’ It All Along…”
I’ve been saying it all along. I watched a clip on YouTube pirated from a DVD I own. The uploader added music, turned it into something new and wonderful. And that’s a breach of copyright on two fronts (derivative work and stealing music). But it made me so happy that I immediately loaded up iTunes… Continue reading “I Bin Sayin’ It. I Bin Sayin’ It All Along…”
100 Words
One hundred words. One hundred ways to catch a day and frame it. I grab a moment, bruise its wings and pin it, still struggling, to the page. If I do my job well, an observer in one hundred years will still hear the echo of the moment, still see the smudge of colour; breathe… Continue reading 100 Words
“Can Someone Get Me Out Of Here?”
“Can someone get me out of hear?!” The voice was harsh for that of a four year old. It sounded like he had been shouting the words long enough to have lost patience but no for so long that he was getting upset. I followed his voice to the bathroom. The door was closed and… Continue reading “Can Someone Get Me Out Of Here?”
Beginning 100Words Anew
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know I haven’t written anything here this month. I didn’t even sign up. So sue me. I’ll write my 100 words for today and I’ll write them for the next four days, and no-one will ever know. It’s all the same to me. When I first tried this, years ago, 100… Continue reading Beginning 100Words Anew
Building A Leaf Bin
I hate waste, so autumn drives me kind of crazy. All my neighbours sweep their leaves to the front kerb, where a big borough lorry comes along and sucks them up. Then, in the spring, everyone has a truck load of mulch delivered. I say: stop the insanity! Build a leaf bin! It doesn’t take… Continue reading Building A Leaf Bin
Kindle Software Update
[Updated 9/28/11: Want to read about the Kindle Fire and Kindle Touch? Click here.] Now I’m sure that this is a coincidence, given that Barnes & Noble’s new ereader the Nook comes out today, but I just got an email from Amazon saying that my Kindle now supports PDFs. And you can rotate the screen,… Continue reading Kindle Software Update
Beyond The Backlash of ADHD
For a while now I’ve just been hoping people would stop mentioning the term AD/HD around me.
Last night, instead of burying my head in the sand, I did some actual reading….
Frustration-Free Packaging!
From time to time, standing in my kitchen wielding a blunt pair of scissors or doing the dangerous “Sabatier Knife Trick” on a reluctant package, I have gone off on my rant about how, come the revolution, all manufacturers will be forced to wrap their products in plain sacks … Well, apparently Amazon has read my mind. Again.
Nook – Another New eReader Machine, This Time From Barnes & Noble
In the interests of cutting through the marketing hype, here are my thoughts on the comparison of (the so far unseen by the public) Nook and my Kindle.