Monthly Archive for October, 2005
It’s often been commented that the problem with blogging is that if you have anything really interesting to write about, then you’re most likely too busy doing it to actually write about it in any great depth.
Not that I consider things really interesting at the moment, but I’ve acquired a new computer, a niece and a housemate in the space of three days. In three days time I’m off to visit brother, brother’s girlfriend, and niece. Two days after that, I’m playing my first solo gig in about five years.
And at some point in between, I’ll be booking my flights for Thailand 2006. It’s going to be a while before I have time to write anything of any great length, so why not read up on Thailand 2004 and Thailand 2005 if you haven’t already?
The prospect of focussing this blog on travel writing has occurred to me, since it’s the only thing that I seem to have sufficient motivation to write in any great depth about, but then there’d only have been two entries this year – obviously I need to spend far more time than I do in foreign countries…
It’s time to relearn how to use a computer again – I’ve just ordered my Mac Mini.
I foresee a flurry of posts about both the joys and the frustrations of adapting to using it…
cigaretted and drinked
loaded against yourself
you seem so yes bold
irreducible
but nuded and afterloved
you are not so strong
are you
after all
He then analyses the sample: ‘The above is precisely the kind of worthless arse-dribble I am forced to read whenever I agree to judge a poetry competition. It took me under a minute and a half to write, and while I dare say you can see what utter wank it is, there are many who would accept it as poetry …
Stephen Fry on modern verse, in an enlightening Observer article…
I’m about to buy a 1.4GHz Mac Mini with the Superdrive option. It’s going to cost me £499 from the UK Apple Store. If I were in America, I’d get exactly the same box for $699 USD, or £394.97. I wonder how much it would cost to ship one across from the States. I bet it would be less than £104…
