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The Last of the Workload
Image: Glasgow City Council Book Fest It’s Book Fest Eve! Yup, after all the scrambles for tickets, arranging dates so as not to clash with social events, and ensuring there are no clashes with the day job, it is finally … Continue reading
Posted in eBooks, Edinburgh, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Poetry, Video, Writing
Tagged and Bevvy, Apple, Book Festival, Books, chapbooks, Charlotte Square, City of Literature, computer, drink, eBooks, EdBookFest, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, errands, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Friday Vid, GDR's, iMac, movies, PC, Poetry, Reading, rioting, Video, workload, Writing
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A Fruitful Diversion
Image: Anders B. My weekend went nothing like I planned it. It all went wrong on Friday night and the crisis lasted until late last night, and yet – and YET – I still managed to have a highly productive, … Continue reading
Posted in eBooks, Edinburgh, Family, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, I.T., Leith, Music, Photography, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Scotland, Writing
Tagged Animals, cappuccino, coffee chop, Corstorphnie, Costa, Desert Island Discs, eBooks, Edinburgh, Editing, Fiction, gardening, half marathon, hard drive, hardware, HDD, house chores, ideas, Leith, Music, notebook, PC, PC World, Photography, photography studio, poems, revisions, thoughts, Twitter, wedding, Windows, Writing
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Apple Has Arrived
Image: The Link Bit of a mis-match, jigsaw piece kind of day. Nothing seemed right, everything seemed odd, bits of my life felt like they were being force-squeezed in order to fit together. I spent a lot of the day … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Fiction, I.T., Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged Apple, computers, Edinburgh Book Festival, Fiction, iPhone, Mac Mini, Muse Conference, novella, PC, workshops, Writing, writing course
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An Afternoon With Mark Billingham And Jackie Kay
Image: Edinburgh Guide I had another half day yesterday but this time with an early start, so my hours spent in the day job office weren’t as short as they were on Monday. With work building up around my ears, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, Edinburgh, Fiction, I.T., Writing
Tagged autobiography, computer, Corstorphine, crime fiction, Day Job, day off, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Jackie Kay, Leith Walk, Mark Billingham, PC, Poetry, Scottish Poetry Library, Tom Thorne
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Grab My Books For Free Today Only!
Image: 1choice4yourstore.com I’ve been unable to blog the last few days. Guess why? I have discovered the source of the recent problems with my home PC’s Windows Operating System. It appears that under most conditions, running the disk defragmenter while … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Family, Film & TV, I.T., Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged baking, cakes, cinema, computers, Ewan MacGregor, Family, flix, Football, Free e-books, Kim Cattrall, movies, PC, Pierce Brosnan, Poetry Super Highway, Roman Polansky, Scottish League, sister, SPL, St Mirren, The Ghost, Vista, Windows
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Moving Ever Closer To The Mac
Image: Macbitz After much tinkering with the email client on my PC I can formally announce I am now 100% back in action. But I’m still not happy; not happy with the fact I have to go through this every … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, I.T., Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged Apple, Baccara Burning, Books, desktop, Fiction, Indian curry, Mac Mini, PC, PC World, Poetry, Silly Poems for Wee People Vol.2, software, Submissions, Writing
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Unwinding
Image: Woodley Wonderworks I watched an excellent film from Lovefilm last night. Once is a “modern day musical” about an Irish busker and a Czech immigrant, who come together on the street and end up recording some music before going … Continue reading
PC Correction
Image: PC Repair My family loves pizza. It’s official. When Gail was given the choice of where she wanted to go for her birthday meal she chose Pizza Express on Leith’s Shore. She made her decision shortly before we left, … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, I.T., Publishing and Marketing, Reading
Tagged birthday, computer, Domino's pizza, Excel, ezine, Family, lit-mag, Microsoft, PC, pizza, Pizza Express, Ranfurly Review, software, Vista, Word
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Bloody Vista
Image: MS Vista Thanks for all your birthday wishes posted on the blog yesterday—I passed them all on. Perhaps the most scary comment left was: “A teenage female in the house, good luck mate.” Cheers Stevie—just when I needed a … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, I.T., Music, Publishing and Marketing, Video
Tagged 30th Anniversary Tour, birthday, computers, Dominos, DVD, Edinburgh, I.T, Microsoft Vista, MS Windows, Music, Netbook, PC, pizza, public holiday, Ranfurly Review, ska, teenagers, The Specials
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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 →