USB Memory Sticks

Ever over-loaded with e.mail, pix, proggies, film clips, music, notes, lectures and audiobooks, I ‘ve ordered a new 8GB Corsair Flash Voyager USB Memory Stick to take some of the strain from my (gunnel-pummelled) 2GB version.
Amazon have these usefully spacious conveniences available at a highly competitive £13.99. It’s a pricier solution than purchasing a pair [...]

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Authonomy.Com – HarperCollins’ Site for Unpublished Writers

A very welcome innovation from HarperCollins, Authonomy.com has been “live” for almost a month now.
It is a website that allows writers to submit completed manuscripts (or works in progress) of at least 10,000 words for peer-group criticism and ranking.
I think the idea is that, at the end of each month, the five highest-rated texts are [...]

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Take it In Your Stride (On Watching a Watch)

Average Walking Stride = 31 inches or 79cm
Average Running Stride = 51 inches or 130cm
These are reminders to help me when I need to change the battery and “re-program” my watch-cum-(s)pe(e)dometer. (Yes, I’m so much of a sad spod that I need to KNOW exactly how quickly I’m “getting nowhere,” – (….. it’s about 2½ [...]

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Brush Up Your (Thy ?) Shakespeare

I hire DVDs and was surprised by the content of yesterday’s <Yester-year, Yester-cent’ry, Yester-era> borrow. Named : “Living with Tudors“, it was not a documentary that brought the past to the present (in the directly instructive hands-on demonstrational manner typical of series such as the BBC’s “The Victorian Kitchen/(“)Garden” (nor did it seek to mock or provoke [...]

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Note to Self About PhotoDraw Installation (100th Post !)

From Control Panel, install the application to your desired location.
It ONLY puts the CORE program on – so all the pens and textures are missing.
Go to Add or Remove Programs in Control Panel.
Find Photo Draw in the list and select Change to “Add or Remove Features“
in order to get all the materials from the second [...]

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The Daily Lamy

On Friday (and my own, (I own)), I found a number (probably “3″ – which is (Witches ?! Where ? Were- ??!! [ArrrrooooOOoooooooO - AHH !]) a “Magic Number”, if not as favoured as “7″) of online reviews piling praise on the German Lamy brand of fountain pens and had steeled (?) (/) stolen (?) myself to no [...]

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(First) GoAnimate

Attempt to embed first greeting made with GoAnimate –>
Ack ! It looks like it can’t be done….
I’m trying to embed a flash film……and can see a box for it in the editor…. but the animation isn’t carried through. Hmm. I think the JavaScript is disallowed. Perhaps this prohibition is another reason to keep pushing at [...]

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Square Peg’s Fitness Test

Is “Square Peg”
“Miss Fit” ?
How can “Miss FIT”
NOT fit ?
Does she HAVE fits ?
IS she a “Fitz” ?
Does the <Kid of the King>
Cling ; a foil ; ROYAL ?

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What’s the (Iridium) Point ?

@ the (bell-)END of (turdy-)today’s fruitless trawl (y’all) through the opportunities —->

THIS IS AN ASIDE *IN*SIDE
(£18,000 per year to have your  (Pussy’s-in-the-(ink-)well-being endangered,
daily, (jaily), as a Prison Guard, £250 per night to  <<pop yer baps out>>
on an “Adult” TV Channel, (my puns are better (batter)(ed) than my “buns” ;
I’ve never been on a Sandwich Course….thus [...]

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Patsy (De)Cline

Continuing to Scrobble ([LOOK --->] I’m so delighted with this natty neologism that I’ve insisted on honouring it with capitalisation) at Last.fm, I am currently playing the Patsy Cline track “Crazy” and NOT thinking about Seal or Bryan Hyland, at all, (at all)……
The asscociated Last.fm software applet gives you quick access to artist information and, [...]

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