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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

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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

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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

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I Need To Shave

Image: The Muppets I’ve completed manuscripts before, several in fact, but none have given me the feeling of elation that I felt all day yesterday after I completed GREENER on Monday night. It’s hard to fully explain, but I think … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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