Anything that involves putting words together.
As part of my one person celebration of all things Bond, in honour of the 50th anniversary of Bond films and leading up to the (scandalously delayed) Australian release of Skyfall, I’ve not only been Read more…
I have not updated this website for over a year now, partly because I spend less time online than I used to, and partly because I’m writing a lot less than I used to. Despite Read more…
I've never seen anything like this. It's nearly four in the morning and ever since we got home (about seven hours ago) the house has been in one long brown out. Obviously I've seen brown outs before, they're a fact of life in Brisbane and they're part of the reason I bought a UPS unit to protect my PC data, but until tonight they've always been momentary events. (more…)
I've seen a lot of web filters over the years. You know, those programs that take a web page and convert it (more…)
Today I downloaded Microsoft's Speech SDK v5.1. All 68 MegaBytes of it. I wanted to see how accurate it's voice recognition could be. After all, talking into my script-writing program would surely be faster than my fairly hopeless typing. (more…)
Some people collect autographs as a passion. Others casually get autographs from famous people they meet (athletes leaving the field, an actor in a coffee shop, that kind of thing), keep them for a while, then throw them away. From a fairly early age I realised that autographs meant nothing to me. I just didn't "get" it - and I still don't. What's the big deal about getting someone famous to sign a piece of paper? Perhaps my contempt of autographs was just part of my contempt for fame. I've rarely been "awed" by seeing a famous person. But there is an exception. One day I did ask someone for their autograph: Spike Milligan. (more…)