Looking Forward To 2009
December 27, 2008
It’s the final few days of 2008 and we’ve all hopefully enjoyed our Christmas and are now looking forward to the new year perhaps with a little less joy than we did in 2007. Things are a little less certain financially for many people, however there are still opportunities out there if we’re willing to [...]
House Repossessions Up 71%
October 29, 2008
UK housing market in meltdown? The number of house reposessions jumped 71% in the three months to June 2008. It’s not easy out there right now and many people are finding it ever more difficult to keep up with their mortgage payments. Given the current state of the stock markets with banks getting bail outs [...]
Google Deal Could Prove Good For Authors
October 29, 2008
Google as settled it’s legal battle in the USA with authors and publishers. The deal could see the publishing world enter the digital era in a significant way and the changes are compared with the deal Apple did with the music industry to allow customers of it’s iTunes store to purchase music on a track [...]
Oh I’m Not Going
September 22, 2008
Damn blast those merchant bankers who called in about 1 percent of their outstanding loan and flushed the holiday company XL down the toilet and messed up thousands of people’s holidayls two weeks ago. Thank’s to those buggers, I’m not going on holiday today to the seemingly wonderful island of Grenada! The writing was on [...]
SEO Your WordPress Templates
September 2, 2008
Like many people, when I first started blogging, I discovered WordPress and it’s many features that made it easy to set up and get going within a couple of hours. One thing I loved about WordPress was the thousands of templates that were available and I soon fell in love with some very good ones [...]
Eye Salvation Has Arrived?
September 2, 2008
Not too long from now, I’ll be heading off again on another wander to somewhere where I’ve never been before, and as per usual, there’s lots of preparation to do and thinking about what I want to take with me. So far (again as per usual) I’ve done nothing, but one thing that I am [...]
Classic Photos in Lego
August 13, 2008
Classic photographs done over using lego by photographer/artist Mike Stimpson. He has recreated some of the most iconic pictures from photography masters such as Cartier-Bresson and Rober Capa. The pictures can be seen on the BBC website. I was quite amused at the images and the photographers take on re-creating such classic images using a [...]
Do You Write For Money or Fame
August 13, 2008
Do you write for money or for fame? Does it matter, is it the same? Are you someone who writes because it’s you passion and you hope that this will one day deliver you the money? I write for money, and I earn well from it, but it’s in a language that really only computers [...]
Bernie Mac Dies
August 9, 2008
Bernie Mac passed away! Actor, but best loved as the comedian who could make you cry laughing in his stand up routines, my friends and family regularly run his routine lines ad nauseam, especially from the routines in the HBO special “Original Kings of Comedy“, which also starred Steve Harvey, Cedric the Entertainer and DL [...]
Summer’s Here!
July 23, 2008
Summer is here I think. We’ve been quite lucky in London as we haven’t had overly amounts of rain the last few weeks (just a couple of days) unlike last year when the whole place seemed to be constantly under deluge. I am fortunate that since moving in April, I now overlook a lovely little [...]