Entries from November 2008

November 13, 2008

Travelling – The Agony and Ecstasy

My dream
Is to fly
Over de rainbow
So high

No, actually that’s Yves La Rock’s dream (and my bloody nightmare as, in Egypt, they still think that this trick is new and interesting when everyone else stopped playing it six months ago).
My dream is that, one day, I will be able to find a [...]

November 9, 2008

Introducing Informer Books

About a month ago I made one of my most popular least unpopular postings entitled ‘How To Make Money as a Shameless Writing Whore’ – a posting that got some very positive feedbacks from literally ones of loyal readers of this blog.
I said there that I would maybe expand on the idea one day and release [...]

November 3, 2008

Soap Opera

Of course it’s a perfectly natural reaction to think that we aren’t influenced by advertising at all – “we’re all too clever to be suckered into that”, “a complete waste of money”.
But such thinking is, of course, complete bollocks.
Although there is little more irritating and mind-numbingly dull as a Procter & Gamble washing powder commercial [...]

November 2, 2008

Formula One ‘Interesting’ Shocker

I hadn’t watched any of the Grand Prix races this year at all before, for two main reasons:
1.  My bay-bee tends to hog the TV and it would bore the pants off her.
2.  It bores the pants off me as well watching the cars go round and round without hardly anyone overtaking anyone else.
But I [...]

November 2, 2008

Fiction Faction

Work has been very quiet for the past 48 hours, which has allowed me to get around to doing a bunch of stuff that I’ve been putting back and back.  One of these tasks was to fulfill my promise to read one of my writer friends’ new manuscript.
This was something that I had been avoiding [...]

November 1, 2008

How to Steal Music

I am a criminal.  And a shameless one at that, especially when it comes to stealing music.  It has been one of my major pastimes over the past few years, having downloaded around 2500 tracks over the past half decade.
I was at it again today.  As I mentioned in a previous posting, I am going [...]