One upside of my recent battles with ants – which are going passing well, thanks for asking: a combination of bait traps, orange oil, cinnamon barriers and no-holds-barred squishing (combined with finding the tin of not-quite-closed Golden Syrup which had evidently acted as their Mecca) has for the time being reduced them to the level of Minor Crisis – is that I’ve finally understood how the Internet works. Something I initially found freaky about ants …
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The Paperless Trail
As someone who’s spent the last three weeks packing up a house ready to move — and has another two weeks of it to go — I feel compelled to share some weary pieces of advice with you. 1. Throw everything away, immediately. The instant someone gives you something, or you buy it, or an object in any other way intersects with your life, get rid of it. By all means sell or re-cycle or …
Stop, thief: yes, you – ebookr.com
It strikes me that I haven’t crapped tediously on about copyright theft for a while, which must be a disappointment to all of you. Luckily a trigger has dropped into my lap in the shape of a friend letting me know that yet another site had all my books up on it. The site was ebookr.com. Go check it out. It’s a nice-looking, cheery, friendly little website. Their tagline declares “We love ebooks”. Maybe they …
Caution: Contains Nitpicking
I knew my last post would be deeply unpopular in some quarters (though, to be fair, it also had strident support, and not just from people in creative professions). I got a lot of irate tweets, and lost followers. I’ll live. The piece’s potential unpopularity was kind of why I posted it, rather than getting it out of my system and leaving the file safely on my hard disk. I didn’t do it to be …
Not Being Here Now
A few nights ago I watched a fascinating program called “My Life As A Turkey”, about a man named Joe Hutto. Hutto is (amongst other things) a hardcore method naturalist, and this drama-documentary detailed a period back in 1995 when he lived as the ‘mother’ of a brood of endangered wild turkeys — an experience he wrote about in Illumination in the Flatwoods: A Season with the Wild Turkey. I haven’t read the book yet …
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