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Tag Archives: software
A Healthy Diet
Image: Noodle Pie The Day The patter of my yesterday followed Wednesday: up early; intense and stressful day at the day job; a relaxing hour writing poetry in Costa Coffee; an evening working on my new novel. The only difference … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, I.T., Poetry, Video, Writing
Tagged Apple, coffee shop, Costa, Day Job, death, Edinburgh, fish supper, Friday Vid, GDR's, haddock, Mac tracking, novel, poems, Poetry, Russia, self-burial, software, stress, videos, wrap-up, Writing, writing review
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From Snowballs To Fireballs
Image: Daily Mail I’m as bored talking about the snow and ice as I am having to walk about in it so I’ll say no more. Unless, that is, I should fall arse over tit again and jar my coccyx … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Food, Drink and Bevvy, I.T., Photography, Publishing and Marketing, Scotland, Writing
Tagged and Bevvy, BBC, CGI, Christmas, Christmas presents, computers, cooking, design, drink, falling star, fireball, Flash, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Gail Galbraith Photography, GDR's, home office, I.T, ice, Internet, meteor, Publishing and Marketing, Ranfurly Review, shooting star, snow, software, stars, Weather, Website, Writing
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And Now The Weather, By Lothian Buses
Image: RichardWalter The rain is back. Summer is over. I knew it was raining heavily because Lothian Buses were running late yesterday morning; the two often go hand in hand. I could feel the waves of precipitation soaking through my … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Fiction, I.T., Interviews, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged Anthology, audio, Autumn, cancer charity, chapbook, Edinburgh Book Festival, Editing, Fiction, GDR's, hardware, Papal visit, podcasting, Poetry, Priests, Publishing and Marketing, rain, sexual abuse, software, summer, the Pope, The Queen, Weather, Writing
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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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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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The Cost Of March
Image: Online Casino Dear Lord, I thank myself for my blessed foresight when I purchased a Netbook last year, for it has gotten me out of quite a few scrapes already. I bought it to support my writing in a … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, I.T., Publishing and Marketing
Tagged 30-something, backups, birthday, computers, Day Job, dinner, Family, hardware, I.T. Microsoft, Ranfurly Review, software, Vista, Writing
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Avoiding Doing Nothing
Image: Alan Levine It would appear that TweetDeck is a pretty good thing – thanks Devon for leading the way. I installed it this afternoon and within five minutes had overloaded my API allowance and had to turn it off, … Continue reading
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 →