Products: success and failure
We’re surrounded by products, day in and day out. The world is full of things to buy – not all of which are books. Personally, I’m a sucker for high-end… Read more »
Category Archives: General opinionated stuff
Technology: Winners and Losers
History is full of winners and losers, and it’s particularly obvious when dealing with technology. Take video recording, for example. Does anybody remember Betamax? I remember borrowing video cassettes when… Read more »
Ebooks on the way down? I don’t think so.
The Guardian has published yet another article prophesying the demise of ebooks: …Now the official Publishers’ Association confirms the trend. Last year digital content sales fell last year from £563m to £554m. After… Read more »
#ThisGirlCan?
I’ve made the decision to get fitter, lose weight, and so on. This means running. Running’s pretty easy; you don’t have to go anywhere special to do it. You don’t… Read more »
My new book reader finally arrived… Hooray!
A couple of weeks ago, I managed to break my primary ebook reader. It is (was) a lovely Kobo Aura HD. It went everywhere with me, which may have been… Read more »
Technology: fiction turning real (or not)
I love technology. The picture is of the iKettle – advertised on Amazon as the first-ever wifi kettle. With your iKettle, you can switch it on via your smartphone with… Read more »
Revealed: Firkins Bakery Conspiracy
The last thing you want when driving around a roundabout is to catch, out of the corner of your eye, some fascinating text which demands a second look. This morning,… Read more »
Back at the keyboard
How long is it since I wrote a post on this blog? I don’t even like to think about it. But here I am, back again. Things are going to… Read more »
Gun control
I love guns. I love shooting. However, I have trouble figuring out why a person who is not in the army, or any kind of reserve force, would need an… Read more »
Genre fiction and intellectual snobbery
Well, here we are again… As you can probably tell from the lack of posting, November is proving to be a month full of incident. Or, at least, full of… Read more »