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Tag Archives: iMac
Time is Tight and the Scotrail Fiasco Rumbles On
Image: FoxNoMad Tight with Time Things are starting to get tight with time and for once it’s NOT to do with the eternal battle between the day job and my writing career. This time, it’s Christmas versus DIY. The house … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Day Job, eBooks, Family, Leith, Poetry, Scotland, Travel, Writing
Tagged Art, art students, assault, Christmas, Christmas cards, Christmas presents, Christmas tree, decoration, DIY, eBooks, free ebooks, giveaway, home, House, illustrations, iMac, iPhone, Kamila Ratajczak, Leith, Leith School of Art, living room, loung, novels, Scotland, Scotrail, Silly Poems for Wee People, thrillers, ticket dodgers, time, time is tight, train, violence
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The Illustrated ‘Silly Poems for Wee People’ Edges Closer
Image: Chas Stramash The temperature was almost at freezing yesterday on the way to the day job. As good a reason as any then, to stop off via the coffee shop and warm myself up. I thought I might use … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, eBooks, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Scotland, Writing
Tagged Apple, bad weather, Blogging, eBooks, Editing, illustrated poems, illustrations, iMac, Leith, Living Leith, manuscript, poems, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, revisions, Scotland, Silly Poems for Wee People, temperature, The Sky Project, workload, Writing
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Web Development on the Mac
Image: OmniTechNews I took the easy route into the day job yesterday, i.e., I got up at 9am, made some strong coffee and wholemeal toast, and then left the house so I arrived dead on 10. As I said, nice … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Writing
Tagged Adobe Dreamweaver, Alastair Darling, book event, Books, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Day Job, dialogue, Edinburgh Bookshop, Gordon Brown, iMac, Mac, RapidWeaver, Reading, web development, websites, wilderness, workshop, Writing, writing retreat
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Writing Induced Insomnia
Image: Infoniac Insomnia I’ve been sleeping crappy these last few nights. It’s baffling given that I’ve been working my skinny white ass off and gone to bed knackered each night. I’ve no idea then, why it is I should be … Continue reading
Posted in Family, I.T., Writing
Tagged Advanced Dialogue Workshop, Animals, backup scheduled, Books, data backup, Devon Ellington, DIY, eBooks, exercise, GDR's, iMac, insomnia, Reading, sanding, Savvy Authors, Sleep, special offer, stripping, Tropical Fish, wallpaper, Windows, workshop, Writing, writing course
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Day 13 at the Edinburgh Book Festival
Image: EdBookFest It was kind of muggy over Edinburgh for the 13th day of the Edinburgh Book Festival yesterday. Would it rain or wouldn’t it, the question was on everyone’s lips. I’d arranged a half day from my day job … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Glasgow, Reading, Writing
Tagged Advanced Dialogue Workshop, Alexander Shannon, bloggers, Blogging, Book Festival, Books, British Army, charity, Charlotte Square, City of Literature, criminals. organised crime, David Leslie, Devon Ellington, eBooks, EdBookFest, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, exhibition, GDR's, Glasgow, iMac, Irvine Welsh, James Robertson, Knockshinnoch, Louise Welsh, mining disaster, murder, Muriel Spark, Reading, Robert Louis Stevenson, Savvy Authors, Scotland, Scottishness, The Guardian, Trees for Life, underworld, William Burroughs, William McIlvanney, writers
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The iMac Cometh
Image: Colin Galbraith Yesterday was supposed to have seen the traditional August at the Fringe gathering of The Diners but alas, one or two of them messed up their schedules and it had to be canned. It will be rearranged … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, I.T.
Tagged Apple, bloggers, Blogging, Book Festival, Books, Charlotte Square, City of Literature, computers, EdBookFest, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, iMac, Internet, Reading, technology, The Guardian, writers
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Day 6 at the Edinburgh Book Festival
Image: Porto & Fi I started my day off at the coffee shop, easing my way into what I knew would be a long one. I sat with a large cappuccino and read (electronically) more of Andrew Raymond Drennan’s The … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Reading
Tagged Andrew Raymond Drennan, Apple, blepharospasm, blindness, bloggers, Blogging, Book Festival, Books, Candia McWilliam, Charlotte Square, City of Literature, computer, Day Job, Diane Parkin, EdBookFest, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, Iain Banks, iMac, John Byrne, Reading, Shereen Nanjiani, Simon Hoggart, The Guardian, Val McDermid, writers
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A Day Off from the Edinburgh Book Festival
Image: Porto & Fi I had a day away from the Edinburgh Book Festival yesterday, the first of only two days off from the 17 that make up its run. There was no particular reason for this other than a … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy
Tagged Apple, Book Festival, Books, Charlotte Square, City of Literature, Diane Parkin, dining, EdBookFest, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, friends, iMac, Newhaven, Porto & Fi, Reading, restaurant, wedding anniversary, writers
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Freedom from the Mundane 
A Thank You to Steve Jobs
Image: Unknown RIP Steve Jobs Woke up to the sad news that Steve Jobs died in the early hours of the morning. Shocking to hear it come through although not entirely unexpected; it was public knowledge he had been seriously … Continue reading →