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April 27, 2008 by graham
The news from Poughkeepsie
Slightly behind the times, I thought I should spread the word of the News from Poughkeepsie, a new project from the Mighty Mur Lafferty. To quote the Murster herself: I’m going to blog an idea a day for 1 year. It will usually be in the form of a blog post, but it may be [...]Archive
October 30, 2007 by graham
Be afraid
Warren Ellis worries about the dogs taking over. Me being a country boy, I worry about the cows. From the BBC (link): A Sussex policeman has been discharged from hospital after an attack by about 50 cows left him with four broken ribs and a punctured lung. I'll be eyeing the cows outside the back [...]Archive
October 18, 2007 by graham
No mojo, no longer
My writing mojo appears to have deserted me. Which, whilst not being the first time it's happened, true, and whilst it certainly won't be the last, is disconcerting nonetheless. A couple of weeks ago I was flying with novel-the-second (which has now taken on the title of After Life, though I'm not sure that that [...]Archive
August 13, 2007 by graham
Servermachine bilong Graham gone buggerup
RAID5 is quite reliable as disk arrays go. So I can understand why having two disks in a five-disk array fail on Thursday morning took my hosts, Servelocity, somewhat by surprise. Which is the quick way of saying exactly what happened to the site over the last four-and-a-bit days. There, that was painless, wasn't it? [...]Archive
May 29, 2007 by graham
Other stuff, not TV so much
For someone who's officially between jobs at the moment I'm finding myself surprisingly busy. Or perhaps I'm just finding way to make myself surprisingly busy, which, when I think about it, would be surprisingly unsurprising (or rather unsurprisingly unsurprising). That said, I've managed to get some novel-the-second work done. I spent a lot of time [...]Archive
January 11, 2007 by graham
This is why we keep notes
I’ve just discovered the beginning of a story in the notebook in which I started a different story last night, which had hitherto been somewhat neglected in the notebook-usage stakes. I haven’t got the first sodding clue as to what it’s about. It’s funny though. This is why we keep notes about things, yes? Remember [...]Archive
August 4, 2006 by graham
Someone’s got to do it
A depressing thought struck me as I was wandering through the Science Fiction and fantasy section of Borders in Preston – as an aside here I have to say that Borders doesn’t feel like a proper book shop, but it’s the biggest not-a-proper-bookshop nearby and, as such, is probably my best chance of finding something [...]Archive
May 3, 2006 by graham
Re-learning the basics
It’s funny, but even though I’ve been programming professionally on a day-by-day basis for the past two and a bit years, I’ve only just rediscovered one of the things that I always found difficult about programming when I was doing it as a student (and therefore from home), which was this: I procrastinate. A lot. [...]Archive
March 2, 2006 by graham