The Monster of No Summer
As everyone knows, we Brits have the weather as our number one topic of conversation, so the fact that this year we are hardly mentioning it signals something really bad…
The Year of Heavenly Harmony
This year of 2012 is stuffed with anniversaries: Dickens, Shakespeare, Titanic, accession of Queen Elizabeth II. And then we (i.e. London) has the Olympics. Predictions of the end of the…
The Dying Art of Browsing
The tool which allows us to consult the world wide web is called a browser, but it is a misnomer. Looking for things via keywords and search engines is not…
The Brighter Picture
It was a grey day, spent largely talking with other (grey-haired) authors about Kindles (which are grey) and how Amazon is about to destroy our world. Apart from a jolly…
Text layout and how not to do it
Something vile this way comes: double line spaces between paragraphs as the norm. What am I talking about? Here, this. This very blog message: no indents at the start of…