Published on August 27th, 2008 Join the converstion
Bear with me while I pop back in time a handful of years to when I messed around with stand-up comedy.
For the first few years as an aspiring stand-up comic, one must tread the rocky paths of the open spots. These are the 5 minute - or if you are lucky 10 - slots that [...]
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August 25th, 2008
I have mentioned some new GoDaddy coupon codes were about to arrive, and here they are!
Valid from right now through to September 26th, the cheapest .co.uk domain names available at a mere £2.70 (that’s cheaper than a pint around here!)
Coupon code: MTECH4
Valid from right now through to September 26th,a whopping 25% off your GoDaddy order [...]
August 25th, 2008
How many complaints regarding a book would a publisher require to justify editing and reprinting what some may regard as an offensive word? 5,000? 500? How about just one…
Dame Jaqueline Wilson’s My Sister Jodie, a book aimed at the 9 to 11 age group, has sold around 28,000 copies since its release in March this [...]
August 25th, 2008
CHAPTER 26 - Merrick faces Keynes and confronts him over the previous night’s seance. But Keynes has other, far more deadly, ideas.
August 23rd, 2008
A selection of shots captured on a walk along the River Wye today.
The four mile walk took us around five hours, with walking frequently interspersed with photo sessions of what we discovered on the route. This selection is the pick from 122 photos and videos taken on the walk. That’s less than half of what [...]
August 22nd, 2008
I wrote on my personal blog about how work - that’s the bit that actually pays the rent right now - overshadows pretty much everything else, including the creative writing. When writing has to be squeezed-in to available hours, it can be tough to summon up the inspiration.
The day-to-day demands of working in the UK [...]
August 22nd, 2008
Where work is concerned, I am pretty self disciplined to get on with it and get things done (ADD-related issues aside). It’s a good thing, this self discipline. But if permitted too much free reign, it completely skews the work-life balance.
Old habits
Getting going in the morning is easy: do everything I can to physically start [...]
August 14th, 2008
GoDaddy recently formally set themselves up in Canada and started offering the .ca domain through their service. Are they likely to do something similar for the UK?
We’re a pretty decent sized market over here, I’m sure, and with no language/translation issues, the UK is an ideal frontier.
GoDaddy currently has around 25% of the global market [...]
