Dave

I’ve been playing Nation States for a month or so now. My nation, Wavuncular, is now classified as a ‘Father Knows Best State’, apparently. I’m not sure how this happened. The People’s Republic of Wavuncular is a very large, safe…

Feedreader worked perfectly last night, but when I booted up this morning to check my feeds, it hung twice. Annoyed, I uninstalled it. I then tried the commercial alternative, FeedDemon from Bradsoft. I have a 20 day trial before coughing…

Feedreader is an offline RSS feed reader (duh…) which means you can log on, spend a couple of minutes downloading messages and then read them at your leisure. It’s free! Excellent!

I’m really getting into the whole blogging thing now. Part of this has been my use of Bloglines and the increased number of blogs I’m reading. As I am more exposed to new blogs and new ways of using them,…

Not a great weekend for Forest. A 2-1 home defeat against Millwall leaves us further in the mire. The usual cliche about a new manager bringing with him a few points clearly isn’t a truism as well. I was disappointed…

A good question. I’m liking this so much I think I’m going to make this my main blog. The WikiBlog can remain just that – blogging the updates and new pages on the website. Here is where I will do…

On my Wikiblog, I posted thoughts on a possible website for the Norfolk Scrutiny Network. I’ve put together an email to the two people that run the Network: Karen, Mike Without wishing to go over old ground, I have been…

So, this is WordPress. I have been looking into different blogging systems, like Blogger and using the wiki on my site, as well as others that charge, like Typepad. I thought I would give this a try though coz a)…

Here’s a great new use of a blog to keep an eye on: CrapAuthors.com. It basically tracks the progress of a whole range of writers that the bloggers deem to be of negligible literary value!

Top journo and Palimpsest resident William Shaw now has a blog:

Al and I have created the Graham Parsnip blog () as usual with me, using the Blogger system. Parsnip is a spoof science fiction author, who first appeared on Palimpsest () earlier this year. But Al reckons the stuff is…

Good article on choosing Openoffice.org over M$ Office (from ) : There are some very good reasons to use OpenOffice.org instead of Microsoft Office, and the best reasons have nothing to do with cost of the software. Although I…

Am currently reading On Beulah Height, by Reginald Hill. Not very far into it, but the change of pace is startling after Destination: MORGUE!, I have to admit. There is a distinct paucity of Hill info on the web, just…

Here, as promised earlier, is a slightly edited version of my Palimpsest post about James Ellroy: Frankly, James Ellroy is God. He is without doubt the world’s best living crime author, and I’d wager that he’d the best crime writer…

The SCO website was cracked this afternoon, with this amusing effort: Very good!

My sister has just bought a laptop and she wants to go on Broadband with it. She asked for a bit of advice, and I might just have gone over the top a bit on the security issue… I’d seriously…

The Daily M*il is currently running a promotion to boost sales and thereby increase the net amount of bile and hatred in the world. They are giving £10,000 to each of 50 charities nominated by readers. 25 of these will…

The Elmcroft Associates website is now online and working! Hoo-ray!

I am currently reading the latest from my all-time favourite author, James Ellroy. It’s a collection of essays and autobiographical pieces, as well as three novellas. It is (obviously) brilliant. I am currently putting together a fairloy lengthy Palimpsest post…