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Minor Technicality #51 – Just a bunch of art

Minor Technicality #51 – Just a bunch of art

Here’s an end of 2009 catch-up!
Adventures selling art to the public, on the street, on a chilly December day.
More about plans for 2010, the big move to another part of the country, more art, and still more art.
New sites released:
Buy our art at sawber.com
Get all the Absinthe you could ever want at absinthe-shop.com.
That’s it for [...]

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An agent in the middle

An agent in the middle

I follow a handful of  literary agents on twitter. One of the more consistently interesting and helpful is Rachelle Gardner, who feeds us eager authors insightful advice to light the path to acquiring and agent and publisher.
On her blog this week is a guest post from Billy Coffey, one of the authors she represents, discussing [...]

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Minor Technicality 50 – Sun, sea, sand and pencils

Minor Technicality 50 – Sun, sea, sand and pencils

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Could our plans be changing? With more and more thought about what is important and what are the core reasons for wanting the move to Spain, we could end up getting there sooner. Find out if we are there yet: AreNeilAndJenInSpainYet.com!
PET PORTRAITS
Bringing more and more art back into day to day life. Recent experiments [...]

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Minor Technicality 49 – Press gang culture

Minor Technicality 49 – Press gang culture

MT49 – Press Gang Culture: The UK MP expenses fracas has me all riled about the media and reminds me why I do not read newspapers. An update on the final episode of Persistent Spirit. Some new projects on the horizon, including a video show!

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Minor Technicality #48 – iphone nostalgia and no espresso for you

Minor Technicality #48 – iphone nostalgia and no espresso for you

MINOR TECHNICALITY 48 – Woe is me, my Zoom H4 seems to have died! Living in Spain and we know where we want to be. Fitness and bike gadgets – getting fit whilst staying safe. Nostalgia and iphone – some surprises on new iphone apps.

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Minor Technicality #45 – The attitude to attitudes

Minor Technicality #45 – The attitude to attitudes

Another Minor Technicality show talking about: British attitudes, vertically challenging IRIS scanners, more attitude from Scottish Power sales reps, and the start of an epic journey of waxed facial hair and traditional shaving.

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Life after Podango – there are options

Life after Podango – there are options

This week, podcast hosting and publishing service Podango anounced they are about to shut down.
In a notice to all Podango users just two days ago, president Douglas G. Smith announced likely closure to take place Wednesday December 31st and that all users should take immediate measures to back-up media files uploaded there.
Today saw the Blubrry.com [...]

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Minor Technicality #44 – Living the holiday sun

Minor Technicality #44 – Living the holiday sun

Waffle rules once more with another Minor Technicality. Find out where we might be living in a few years, and how my – and your – involvement in new media and podcasting has been a very good thing.

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Minor Technicality Episode 43 – Contractual obligations

Minor Technicality Episode 43 – Contractual obligations

I don’t have music in me, so there’s none in this show. Halloween is coming up, and the plans for a special spooky audio story. New Brit sketch comedy from Harry and Paul – what a relief!
Get 10% off 1800PetMeds.com with petmeds coupon: MINOR

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They do it with movies, so why not books?

They do it with movies, so why not books?

Hollywood endlessly remakes old movies, bringing them up to date, polishing them with modern dialogue, swanky sets, and more than a splattering of special effects. But this kind of star-spangled resurrection doesn’t happen with books.
I am currently reading Algernon Blackwood’s The Damned (1914), which Wikipedia describes as “A highly original haunted house tale in which [...]

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