May 2005 Entries
The new Writerbo. And this link from the comments is true for all writers, no matter the genre. The last item is particularly apt.
[Listening to: Slide - Dido - No Angel (UK Edition) [ECD] [UK]]
Chris is worried about programmers and tools. Are there still programmers? What's the difference between a programmer and a developer? It's a semantic thing; to me it doesn't matter what the term is, it's what and how you do your job. In my life I've seen plenty of people to whom their job was just that, a job. They came in at 9, did their allotted programming, and left at 5, I've never been able to understand that mentally, to switch off like that. When you're in the flow time is an illusion (lunchtime double so). Even on bad days...
I, like many people, have a company, one I registered in Scotland when I used to live in Edinburgh. Since then the registered company address has bee a solicter up there, and for a modest fee they just forward all the post to me. Recently they decided that they weren't going to do that anymore unless you wanted their "full secretaial services" and a not so modest £750 per year, which is just way too much for a few stamps. So I dutifully filled in the official form to change the registered address, only to have it sent back to...
On Saturday I headed down into the big smoke to visit the Microsoft mHome, which is a media enabled house in lovely quiet leafy street in West London. Essentially it's a demo house to show the possibilities of Meda Center and a variety of other cool features, such as the Mirror TV and the vibrating stone - a speaker that is fist size vibrating err, well stone, that you place on a solid surface and the vibrations turn that surface into a speaker. Surprisingly good, considering how snobiish I can be about hifi. I also like being able to write...
So, polling day in the UK and chatting to the nice ladies manning the village hall it turns out that the whole thing is rather stricter than I though. Part of the conversation went like this:
Me: Still, it's a good excuse to sit and read
Them: Only if it's not a political book
Me: Really? What about the paper?
Them: No, at least not in the open.
Me: That's daft.
Them: Yes. Even our clothes have to be non-political. No red, blue or green.
Me: Right. because we're all simple minded, easily impressionable fools.
Actually I made that last bit up, but it makes you wonder how...
This made me laugh.
[Listening to: Bob Harris Friday - - ]