Blog Posts

  • Hiroshima

    The picture shows the Peace Dome in Hiroshima. The bomb exploded almost directly above the building, it was the only structure left standing in the…

  • Plane Crash

    I saw a plane crash yesterday. The pilot was killed. Actually, I didn’t see the crash itself. The two planes had been crossing the sky…

  • Never Lose Your Work Again!

    A very well known writer recently tweeted about how he’d accidentally overtyped a whole morning’s work. I think every writer would feel his pain – not…

  • How Writers Write: Stephen Palmer

    How Writers Write is monthly series of guest posts where established writers invite you into their workspaces, reveal their work habits and share their experience.…

  • How Writers Write: Jaine Fenn

    How Writers Write is monthly series of guest posts where established writers invite you into their workspaces, reveal their work habits and share their experience.…

  • Six Little Masterpieces of Economy

    Armistead Maupin has been described as the master of coincidence.  He’s also a master of economy.  Look how captures the essence of his characters in…

  • How Writers Write: Ruth EJ Booth

    How Writers Write is monthly series of guest posts where established writers invite you into their workspaces, reveal their work habits and share their experience.…

  • Six Useful Websites for Writers

    1) Etomyonline – Etymological Dictionary See the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history. Keep your language of…

  • Install Mediatomb on Ubuntu 15.04

    Now that Ubuntu 15.04 has moved to systemd, Mediatomb no longer runs from the dash. If you want to run it on a per user…

  • Ubuntu 15.04 + Chillblast Fusion Quasar

    I’ve installed Ubuntu 15.04 on my new PC with little difficulty. The machine came with 64bit Windows 8.1 pre-installed, I partitioned the SSD and HDD…

  • The Only Good Thing about Vinyl was the Covers

    I must have bought about 200 vinyl records before I bought a CD player. You can see some of them above, there’s a prize for…

  • Codes that Changed the World: Fortran

    Before Fortran there was no poetry in programming The BBC are doing a a very interesting radio series on programming languages called Codes that Changed…