This is an interesting clip I came across which is apparently from 1969 looking forward to how they saw computers functioning in the future – as well as what was to become the internet. It didn’t quite turn out the way they foresaw, but it showed remarkable guesswork. All works by futurists naturally will not [...]
Archive for February, 2009
The Internet – in 1969
Posted: February 14, 2009 in GeneralTags: 1969, future, internet, video, writing
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Pride and Prejudice….and Zombies
Posted: February 13, 2009 in GeneralTags: jane austen, pride and prejudice, writing, zombies
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.” It may come, gentle readers, as somewhat of a surprise to discover that Jane Austen’s classic novel has, until this day, been an abridged version and that the novel in its totality was not released [...]
After doing a little calculation I have realised that since commencing this website I have written some one hundred thousand words. In other words the length of a full novel. Of course, given how scattered a lot of that writing has been, a full novel has yet to be completed. Hopefully the next 100K of [...]
A Great Day
Posted: February 12, 2009 in winter wolves, writing updateTags: writing, writing update
Day is not quite done yet, but so far I have done around seven hours of work and passed 6K words written, a new record for a day for me. Admittedly I did cheat a little as I was doing a rewrite of the first chapter of Winter Wolves so many of those words had [...]
Winter Wolves Excerpt
Posted: February 12, 2009 in winter wolves, writing updateTags: writing, writing update
I have returned to my old familiar stomping grounds and gone back to work on the rewrite of Winter Wolves. It is the closest of any of my works to being completed, with a 20K synopsis finished and a previous rewrite started. After planning on rearranging the order of the first rewrite attempt, it got [...]
Another week, another update. Still slowly improving the output, this week breaking the 8K mark. next week hopefully will be back over 10K for the week. Of that around 5K was on an untitled short story which is around two thirds complete. Should have the rough draft done by the end of the next week, [...]
Week in Review: Week Five 2009
Posted: February 5, 2009 in writing updateTags: writing, writing update
Week five has turned out to the second best week this year in terms of output, with a little over 7000 words written, so at least I hit the minimum desired mark of 1K words a day. Still, for all that, it was only half the output of the first week of the year. The [...]
It is currently illegal to sell MMOs in Australia. No, it is not April first. Nor is this some kind of surrealistic joke. Read this article for further details. It was not done deliberately, I wouldn’t think, more a loophole in the classification laws that had gone unnoticed. Online games, such as World of Warcraft, [...]
Stumbled upon this article recently, purporting to tell of the first ever extinct speices being cloned. Now, before you get all excited about bringing back mammoths and dinosaurs and what not, it is important to note that the animal in question, a Pyrenean Ibex, only went extinct in 2000 and is a subspeices of the [...]
The Bronze Man updated
Posted: February 3, 2009 in book of deeds, writing updateTags: Short story, writing, writing update
After a great deal of time I have finally finished the first draft of The Bronze Man short story. All up it comes to a bit over 9600 words. It will need some going over and tidying up, especially the later parts, which should undoubtedly add even more words to the finished story, taking it [...]
