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Accidental Discovery while Writing

Monday, May 8th, 2006

So I was busy writing my Noir earlier or trying to write it anyway. Its all told in the first person (well it is a noir) and so I’ve not described the hero at all. I know he’s pretty much an everyman, an ex-soldier, quite cold, from Liverpool and an outsider but other than that […]

Vue Python for Beginners

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

An updated version of this article is now available on my website at http://www.impworks.co.uk/vue/vuepythonforbeginners.php. Tonight, by special request, a short introduction to using Vue and Python for beginners. What is Python “Python is the industry standard, cross-platform, object-oriented application scripting language. It is both sufficiently easy to use and powerful to let you develop complex […]

Blogs and Branded House v. House of Brands

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

According to point 8 of Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox, October 17, 2005: (Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes) I should focus my blogging on one topic. I can see his point and he is a world renowned expert. However if you have more than one interest that way madness lies. If I followed this rule […]

Blame Kim!

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006

Kim has been putting the metaphorical thumbscrews on at the writing group we go to for us all to submit our work to be publishers. She has a quite lurid turn of phrase for it I won’t use on a public blog because it would attract completely the wrong kind of search results from web […]

So many Ideas forgot too Blog on Sunday

Monday, April 10th, 2006

Well its technically 14 minutes into Monday here. I’ve been having so much fun I forgot I hadn’t posted here yet. Another relativelly early start and again a good result. Got 2500 more words written on the new story getting the character to just before the lowest point of her ride. Trapped alone and about […]

Prevarecation

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

Prevarication, prevarication Prevarication, that’s what you need If you wanna take a rest If you wanna dodge the test Oh-oh prevarications what you need; With apologies to the late Roy Castle and whoever wrote the lyrics I’ve just wrecked. So I’ve been avoiding getting on with my web site by playing round with silly bits […]

Odds and Ends

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006

A bit of a bitty day today. Warmer but raining instead. Testing code at work that takes time to do a run so much twiddling of thumbs. Tried a chicken korma recipe that took my head off. Still it cleared my sinuses. Enjoyed the new BBC2 show”It’s Not Easy Being Green” especially the water wheel. […]

How not to Sell

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

Oh the irony. After writing up the night class fiasco I arrive at work to find an advert for the summer courses from Liverpool University. Just off to check in the mirror. I’m back. It doesn’t say “mug” on my forehead. I’ll keep my money. Only 50 minutes till second part of CSI. Something to […]

How Not to Teach

Monday, March 20th, 2006

Well tonight was the last night of a night class that I can only describe as a complete none event. Twenty weeks that allegedly focused on Creating Fictional Worlds. It said so in the title. The prospectus mentioned world building. It mentioned Fantasy and Science Fiction. What it didn’t mention was that that all the […]

Content, Content, Content

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

After watching CSI last night (finally this season seems to have gotten going with last night’s episode) I set to work pulling content for my new site together. Some articles I wrote for Valkyrie, some stuff I wrote for defunct web sites, some of my pictures and some stuff from my old web site. Then […]

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