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Tag Archives: Mac
The Future is Bright
Image: Unknown I had the entire day away from the day job yesterday and it was absolute bliss. Not that I used the time to laze about, oh no, I got off my arse and got wired into tying up … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Day Job, eBooks, Edinburgh, Family, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Leith, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged 3 Ebook deal, app, artist, breakfast, bright future, commission, cover art, Day Job, eating out, eBooks, Edinburgh, Fiction, free, free ebooks, free novels, GDR's, Goals Dreams and Resolutions, illustrations, iPhone, Kids' Poems, Leith, Living Leith, Mac, marketing, newsletter, poems, Poetry, publisher, short fiction, Silly Poems for Wee People, Story Tracker, submission tracker, Submissions, Windows PC
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Launch Date Announced
Image: HimHo I could hardly keep my eyes open at the day job yesterday. I was so tired I just wanted to do my work quietly and without interruption. Unfortunately, my position doesn’t entail that to be possible so I … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, eBooks, Edinburgh, Fiction, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Video, Websites, Writing
Tagged Amazon, chapbooks, coffee shop, eBooks, Edinburgh, grumpy, insomnia, Kindle, launch day, Leith, Lulu, Mac, media, pen name, poems, Poetry, Portobello, pseudonym, Sleep, Video, web development, Website, YouTube
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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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Devon Ellington Day
Image: Top Banana I hope Devon doesn’t mind me naming today in her honour, but after the Sunday I’ve had I couldn’t think of anything more appropriate. When I went to bed last night everything was fine in computer land, … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Drink and Bevvy, I.T.
Tagged Apple, computers, Devon Ellington, Dominos, Football, GDR's, Ink in my Coffee, Mac, Microsoft, PC problems, pizza, plans, Windows, Windows Vista
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Freedom from the Mundane 
Back On Track
Image: Paolo Camera PCs and Macs My PC rebuild is now complete. From installation of the new hard drive to being back up and running, the total time it took was only a couple of hours. Not bad. I’m now … Continue reading →