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Looking for the perfect word processor

A long time ago when I owned an Atari ST, I considered the mighty Protext my favourite word processor. Every so often I do a search to see what happened to it, thinking it might one day move into Freeware territory. And lo, on my last search it has. And so I eagerly downloaded it [...]

Poem: Shiny Moon

I was looking up at the moon last night. The moon was full and very bright. And I wondered what would make it glow Because there’s nothing up there to make it so. It has stones and rocks and rubble, It has dust as well, but nothing shineable But maybe that’s just what scientists say [...]

Book Review: Strike Back by Chris Ryan

The first Chris Ryan novel I read. And I really liked it. Chris Ryan seems a worthy contender to Barry Sadler. I wonder if the Sadler estate could convince Chris Ryan to contribute to the Casca series. At least we won’t get any more Casca books from Paul Dengelegi since the Casca writing has passed [...]

Mavericks Of The Mind by David Jay Brown (Great Free Interviews)

Mavericks Of The Mind.com offers a collection of 51 Interviews with "Counter Culture" Heroes – Ivan Stang, Robert Anton Wilson, Timothy Leary, Colin Wilson, John C Lilly and many many more. (Did I just sound like a k’tel ad?) A combination of the books "Mavericks of the mind" and "Voices from the Edge". And some [...]

Film Review: The King Of Kong – a fistful of quarters

I hope you don’t have to be a retro gamer to enjoy this film but I can’t really say that since I love retro games. But this great film shows the dedication it takes to hit the top scores on these video games. Billy Mitchell does not come out of the film very well although [...]

Book Review: Problogger by Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett

So who wouldn’t want to get a six figure income from their blog? Well this book promises you the secrets. More specifically Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett offer this to the reader. So the book takes the reader through the journey of each of the authors, with lessons interspersed. Many of which you will already [...]

Film Review: Be Kind Rewind

Anyone who has set themselves the challenge of trying to make a film using a linear editing process i.e. your only editing process is the rewind and record buttons, can relate to this film After Jack Black manages to magnetise himself and then erase all the films in the video store. He and Mos De [...]

No clicky pens at seminars please

I went to a seminar tonight. What a waste of time that was. But the most annoying thing for me? Those free ballpoint pens they give out to everyone. Why would anyone with any ounce of sanity choose to give clicky ball point pens out to people. Half the idiots in the hall spend their [...]

Book Review: Dissolution by C. J. Sansom

If you like your detectives to have hunched backs and reek of descriptive text with plenty of historical observations, then you should buy this book. Sadly I don’t.

Book Review: The Shakespeare Secret by J. L. Carrell

Yada yada, yawn, secret book, hidden text, ooooh a murder, chase, yawn, murder, skim skim, blah. Don’t waste your time.