Jo S. Wun's Blog, page 17
July 31, 2010
Step away from the blog, ppl!
Did the title catch your eye?
Update: The giveaway event at Paper, Pens & Lipgloss scheduled for this weekend has been postponed til next weekend (6th – 8th August).
The good news? You're not too late to get a free copy of The Jeremy – Snaps of the Dragon. Click the link to Sa Toya's blog to keep up to date.
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July 26, 2010
It's Book Giveaway Time at PPL!
PPL? That's Sa Toya's booky blog, otherwise known as Paper, Pens & Lipgloss. Hop on over and take a look (the link's at the bottom of this post).
She'll be running a giveaway of The Jeremy – Snaps of the Dragon this coming weekend. Not only that, she'll be publishing her interview questions and the answers I gave. Exciting init!
Wanna get your hands on a free copy of The Jeremy? Follow Sa Toya's blog…click here.
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The Perils of a One-Track-Mind
"You've got a one-track-mind!"
It's often said derogatorily, directed towards a male person and delivered with a high innuendo factor. Just another hackneyed cliché*, it's always eager to be rolled out, sitting at the ready on the tip of many a friendly wag's tongue.
Thing is, there is no other sort of mind. At least not when it comes to using the 'thinking part' of one's brain. Sure, there's a plethora of tasks going on in the old grey matter, all at the same time. You could be eating a bar...
July 14, 2010
Roll up! Roll up! 75% Off at Smashwords
The Jeremy – Snaps of the Dragon is just one of many eBooks available in the Smashwords Summer/Winter Sale until 31st July. Get it here.
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July 11, 2010
Did You Miss Me?
CRASH! Well, perhaps not quite that dramatic but the end result was that my PC would not boot after it hung.
Ironic really, considering I was installing software to emulate a PC so that I could try out new software in the emulation without the risk of it crashing my real machine. Just as well I'm not phased by having to reinstall Windows. I've done it enough times that I've got used to it as a normal part of PC-using life. It's the price you pay for allowing your TechoNerdGeek-self the...
June 29, 2010
Ignore this post (updated)
Why? Because I'm just testing the WordPress.com tweetmeme shortcode.
What's that? It's what puts this green 'retweet' button here:
The only way to see if I've understood how to use it properly is to bung it in a post and publish it. Seeing as I'm posting, here's a dramatic photo by James Clear to make it all worthwhile. Click the image to go to his Flickr page.
June 26, 2010
I just put up my review of Dwayne Kavanagh's book A Child's Wound on the 
June 25, 2010
CLS and the CLI
Nope. Nothing to do with crime scenes or forensics.
Those of you of a certain age (commonly known as getting on a bit) and of a sufficiently nerdy inclination, might recognise CLI as an acronym for Command Line Interface and CLS as the mnemonic command entered into the CLI, at the command prompt, to CLear Screen.
Okay. Nostalgia time over. We've moved on from there and now we have multi-touch screens, mouse gestures and voice recognition to control our computing devices.
But one thing hasn't...
June 20, 2010
Any old iron, any old iron?
We went in search of a new built-in gas hob the other day, but not necessarily exactly like the one pictured here. We had some basic selection criteria, such as the controls must be along the front edge rather than the side. But if I did want controls positioned at the side, I'd be mighty glad I'm not a 'leftie' because all the ones we saw had them on the right.
Other criteria included the number of rings (three, or maybe four, five even, or perhaps two mini-hobs with two burners each, or …), ...
