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2 July 2009 2 Comments

The Emperor’s New Prose

I happened to be in and around the vicinity of a few online fringe writer’s groups and had the opportunity to see what was being written. I was appalled. Sturgeon’s Law of course applies (90% of everything is crap), but even bearing that in mind, I could not find that better 10% anywhere. I set [...]

1 June 2009 1 Comment

Obnoxious Advertising from 3 Mobile

It was predicted by Philip K. Dick. He saw a future in which everything was advertising and garbage. Cheap disposable products, plastics, consumer culture, buy-all-you-can! culture… Yeh, he saw it coming. Not that I have anything against buying things. I drop more money on expensive gadgets than really I ought to, but my point is [...]

26 February 2009 0 Comments

A long pause…

It seems that reinstalling word press is one thing, but actually posting something is quite another. February to May. I’m just messing with the default hello world post, not, as it may appear, writing this in advance through some feat of prophetic vision. But this historic post is a reminder that neglect is easy. Its [...]