I just can’t stop my lips from flapping
The latest (and slightly delayed) edition of the Ubuntu UK Podcast is out, containing an interview with yours truly, alongside Matt "mdz" Zimmerman, Matthew "mpt" Thomas, Rob "lifeless" Collins and Stuart "aquarius" Langridge. So, basically, one dumb northerner yakking about Launchpad amongst a sea of scary geniuses, then. Link
“Playing for Keeps” launches on November 1st
Mur Lafferty, podcasting goddess, has created a site for her new free podcasted novel Playing For Keeps, the first instalment of which is set to go live on November 1st. Based on the quality of her previous work it's sure to be a blinder, so I suggest that you all go and subscribe and wait, [...]
Farewell to Geek Fu
Mur Lafferty, writer, podcaster and tiara-wearing queen of wannabe writers is putting Geek Fu Action Grip on indefinite hiatus for reasons which I have no business repeating here (go there, use ears, understand). I first came across Mur and her work when, Googling for writing resources, I found I Should Be Writing. I subscribed to [...]
Pointedly pointless posts sometimes have a point, you know
I was going to write a post about what I hate about professional sports. But when I got most of the way through it I realised that I had written a self-defeating argument so I’ll just have to save it for later when I can think up something coherent to say. I’m very, very tired [...]
Bearded and Broke
You can tell I’m working hard when my procrastination involves, variously, installing Fedora Core 5 on a VMWare virtual machine, just for the sake of having a play, taking photos of my currently bearded self and listening to the umpteen editions of the Celtic Music News Podcast that have slowly accumulated in my CastPodder downloads [...]
Voices
Enjoying the hiatus from writing, but itching to get back to it. Tonight I’ll be getting started on – or rather getting to the middle on – a short story that I’ve been scribbling away at during downtime (usually when waiting to pick Sarah up or at spare moments during the day) for the last [...]
The Todo List
I should know better than to not save my drafts before trying out some new feature of Firefox that I’ve never tried before. Grr. Tempted as I am, though, to file the just-lost post under "Fuck it, I’ll do it later" I’ll try to start again. Where was I? Oh yes. I have lots to [...]
A Sprinkling of Hippo Dust – Fit the Fifth
Wherein our hero wishes all his (few but precious) listeners a happy new year and talks about his presence. Or is that presents? (Ah, the old ones are the bad ones, aren’t they?). Links from the show: Aspinal of London mp3players.co.uk Download Fit the Fifth | Subscribe to the feed | Subscribe to the Odeo [...]
Hippodust
Delayed until Monday at the earliest. Too tired to even write, let alone record a podcast. But I passed 70,000 words (miniw00t), so not all’s bad in the world. Have a great Christmas/Yule/Kwanzaa/Hanukkah/Give-me-stuff-day, whatever your religious leanings or inclinations. See you later.
A Sprinkling of Hippo Dust – Fit the Fourth
Wherein our hero emerges from the depths of November into the light of coming Christmas (that sounds far too religious; I apologise) and talks about honesty and truth in fiction, why it’s not an oxymoron and why it’s important, and also reveals his (very tenuous) link to a certain 25ft-tall Gorilla. No links this week. [...]
One always finds things to do…
I would be recording Fit the Fourth of A Sprinkling of Hippo Dust right now, except that I noticed this morning that I needed to move my root partition onto a different hard drive. The terminal telling me that I had run out of space on the original drive was a big hint. So here [...]
Well slap me on the arse and call me Miranda
Interesting. It seems that, since putting up the brief bio on the right hand side of this page, I’ve suddenly become the top-ranked result for "Graham Binns" in Google UK‘s database. Excellent. In other news, the novel goes well. At 62,000 words it seems to be clicking along nicely, though I’m starting to worry that [...]
A Sprinkling of Hippo Dust – Fit the Third
Wherein our hero finally gets round to recording a podcast, apologises for not doing so already, and then discusses NaNoWriMo and his notebook fetish. With extra slurpy noises for added effect and a little swearing for flavour. This week’s word count: 0 / 90,000(0.0%) Links from the show: Mus musculus domesticus on Wikipedia NaNoWriMo Download [...]
Breezyfication
Having taken the day off work through being absolutely exhausted (caused by having to sleep in a chair two nights in a row, for reasons which will become apparent to those who don’t know why already soon enough), I have managed to complete a podcast. No, really. It’s all recorded; it’s just got to be [...]
Promises, promises
Well, so much for promising a podcast. So much has been happening in the last week that I haven’t had the time or the energy to put one together. I have lots of pieces of raw audio, though, so I’m sure that some well-judged editing will see me right for a podcast tomorrow. It’s a [...]
A Sprinkling of Hippo Dust – Fit the Second
Wherein our hero reviews Serenity and blethers briefly about the pitfalls of outlining and plotting when writing a novel. This week’s word count: 11,517 / 80,000(14.0%) Links from the show: The Secrets The official Serenity website The Signal – The Serenity / Firefly podcast Download Fit the Second | Subscribe to A Sprinkling of Hippo [...]
A Sprinkling of Hippo Dust – Fit the First
Well, I did say I was going to try a podcast, didn’t I? So here it is: A Sprinkling of Hippo Dust, Fit the First. Wherein our hero talks about himself for fifteen minutes and tries to figure out what podcasting is all about. Links from the Show I Should be Writing The Secrets Download [...]
