Trying Out Vodafone Mobile Connect

But there’s no 3G here, so it’s quite slow.

My Blake Morrison Story Has Been Cherry Picked At ABC Tales

The Day I Asked Blake Morrison If He Raced Pigeons has been Cherry Picked by the editors at ABCTales. It’s funny that my Life Writing MA has become the subject of my life writing.  I submitted an earlier version online to Pulp.net which seems to be the online incarnation of Bloomsbury. They pay £100 per [...]

The Day I Asked Blake Morrison If He Raced Pigeons

The day I asked Blake Morrison if he raced pigeons, there was a bad vibe in the tiny Goldsmith’s classroom, University of London. There was no air. The windows were shut and the blinds were closed. The tension was unbearable. The others grew restless. And then hostility broke out. One blonde Fiona took against another [...]

WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin

I just upgraded both my WordPress blogs to 2.3 using WAUP. Everything worked first time, which is more than can be said for my manual efforts in the past. That’s themes, sidebars, everything all in place, and I’m on 2.3. What more can I say?

Expression, Art, Existence

The great thing about being a full-time writer is occasionally seeing my work appear in print. In this case, Moral Purpose Poem appears in print and online in issue 139, October 2007. Martin Holroyd selected this poem way back in August out of a group of 6 I wrote way back in May. It’s not [...]

I Added Snap Shots to My Site

Introducing Snap Shots from Snap.com I just installed a nice little tool on this site called Snap Shots that enhances links with visual previews of the destination site, interactive excerpts of Wikipedia articles, MySpace profiles, IMDb profiles and Amazon products, display inline videos, RSS, MP3s, photos, stock charts and more. Sometimes Snap Shots bring you [...]