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 and tried it.
Sadly it didn’t seem as fast and funky as I remembered, but it does work well on my EEE – which I want to run it on.
And then I stumbled upon Q10.
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
maybe the truth is some other way
Maybe the moon is full of glittery stuff
diamonds and pearls would shine enough
but how would they travel all that way?
Ill have a think, "hmmmmmm…" I say.
Maybe if I drop my watch and leave it,
Something would see it, steal it, move it
And it would end up way up there
Up on the moon, and would I care?
Because all night long it would glow,
And I would, at long last know
How the moon is so very bright
each and every single night
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 into the hands of Tony Roberts. But I digress, I should write about "Strike Back"…
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 ‘bonus’ interviews thrown in.
I love seeing really useful resources like this made freely available to everyone.
Visit the site and avail yourself of the wisdom presented.
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 the additional footage makes him come out much better. But regardless the film really does work like a real-life Rocky most especially the closing moments on the film (which I won’t ruin for you).
Best documentary I have seen and the "Billy Mitchell Styling" or "Mr Awesome" bonus features count as pure Spinal Tap, but they are real (aren’t they?).
And if you ever thought of yourself as a good gamer (on any game) you have to view this film.
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 have known if you have followed Darren Rowse’s blog or a while:
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 have to remake all the films to order.
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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 time clickclickclickclickclicking their way through the evening, and the rest of us idiots stick it out and wanting to stab our pens into the throats of the other idiots. Burroughs was right – this is a planet of war.
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.
Yada yada, yawn, secret book, hidden text, ooooh a murder, chase, yawn, murder, skim skim, blah.