Friday, November 30, 2012

How can a small bookshop make money from ebooks?

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Bookshops everywhere are worried. There's a revolution going on and they are losing sales because of it. The revolution is that of ebook...
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Monday, November 26, 2012

Extending a wireless network (and curing Kindle dropped Internet connections)

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After lots of experiments with different router settings I've come to the conclusion that Amazon Kindles just don't like connectin...
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Sunday, November 25, 2012

Mother. Go home and let me work!

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Translation: Let those without sin cast the first stones Mother, go home and let me work!
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Sunday, November 04, 2012

Wrong time and date on a Kindle Fire HD?

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Here's how to cure it: Press and hold the power button for a full 20 seconds Release the power button Switch back on When it rest...
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Thursday, May 10, 2012

Moans and confessions

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It's a while since I had a good moan about the things people leave outside my house (See If I Were JayDax Almighty ) but today there was...
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Monday, April 09, 2012

Solving Facebook Game Problems

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Solving problems which prevent Facebook games working properly (Applies to all Facebook games) For game issues try: Re...
Thursday, February 02, 2012

Artists - I need advice on a painting

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Some years ago I was wandering round a car boot sale in Essex and saw what I thought was a print of a lake. Closer examination showed it was...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Allen Banks

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I'm quite proud of this picture. it's of a bridge over the River Allen near where I live. The original picture is very large ( 204...
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Sunday, January 22, 2012

The night I saw a ghost

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I didn't believe in ghosts. I'd always told myself, 'There's always some sort of explanation.'  Either it would be an ov...
Friday, January 20, 2012

Oops! I just broke US law. Hope they don't extradite me.

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When I click the 'Post' button on this blog I will have broken US law by linking to a site which hosts copyright material. Now that...
Sunday, November 06, 2011

Cover to Cover

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If you search the Internet you'll find lots of advice on how to write and also lots about how to get published. Up to now the route has ...
Sunday, October 23, 2011

If I can't write in the box...

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According to an old diary I found, 45 years ago I watched my father filling in a tax form. I noticed he was busy rubbing a candle over part ...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011

A mean trick to play on your wife

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I went rash and bought a new Kindle ebook today. 'Stairlift to Heaven' by Terry Ravenscroft. (@terryrazz) I'd heard the writer w...
Tuesday, October 18, 2011

How to fix the mess the government is in.

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Browsing my Facebook account recently I came across this image copied from Revolution News Network's site: Now of course someone was ...
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Friday, July 29, 2011

Odd Page on the Right - Creating a Book in Word 2010

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Like most authors, I use Microsoft Word and rapidly discovered one of it's limitations. Word insists on starting any new document on a ...
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Saturday, June 18, 2011

Clairol nice'n difficult

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Shhh... don't tell anyone but my wife uses hair colourant. Clairol have been advertising on TV a product called nice'n easy colour b...
Saturday, January 29, 2011

Well done Number 10!

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Today I went to the 'Number 10' website to find out if anyone had created a petition about one of my pet hates - VAT on ebooks. It t...
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Saturday, January 22, 2011

That darn cat...

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...decided to have a lazy afternoon. ...decided that it wasn't a good idea to jump from the fence onto the surface of the neighbor's...
Sunday, October 24, 2010

Installing MS Office 2010 - What a palaver!

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Having finally bought Microsoft Office 2010 to replace the pre -release version I've being using for the last year I sat down to install...
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Thursday, October 14, 2010

Facebook Games

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I wonder how many Facebook users have stopped to consider just how much money the writers of the more popular Facebook applications - especi...
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