30 poems in 30 days continues. Sunday’s poem was number 17, and it looks like this (at the moment): 17 – to escape the fire Sunday 30th January 2005 take one match, and a small bundle of sticks place the sticks on dry grass strike the match and set the grass alight stand back, and … Read more
Well, my reply from Blogger came through quite quickly (mentioned in an earlier post). There is no category facility in Blogger. That was it! Today, I have been hunting online for more information about this. It has become more of an issue since I set up another weblog called “Evaluation in Healthcare“. This is a … Read more
Yesterday evening I put together a booklet of the first 100 entries to this weblog. It is available as a download in pdf format. You will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to open it – but then you knew that already! Click here to download it. Left click to open it in the browser, … Read more
This is the 100th post to this weblog. So, I thought it made sense (to me, at least) to post a poem from the ‘poem for 30 days’. I’m near the middle of this sequence now. This poem was written this morning. It is raw and un-edited. I like it like that. I did just … Read more
I’m listening to some pretty mainstream stuff at the moment: REM – Around the Sun Keane – Hopes and Fears Both are in the charts – and both are albums that I’m enjoying listening to at the moment. I’m also delving into a group of greatest hits albums by The Eagles, Queen and Steve Harley … Read more
I began a project a week ago. It is a poetry sequence called “Avenues of In Between” and is based on the idea of writing a poem a day for 30 days. At the end of the thirty days I will shift from creative out-pouring to critical friend and do some editing. For now, the … Read more
Just a really quick post to mention a couple of interesting numbers: This is the 97th post to this weblog. I started counting visitors to the site last July and have just passed the 600 mark. Total number of hits for the same period is 820. I’m powering on to the 100th entry….
“Leonardo da Vinci” by Sigmund Freud was a book which I bought at the local library in a sale. Every few months they clear books and sell them on at ridiculouly low prices. Amongst the stack of trashy novels and last year’s annual books there are usually some real treats. It took me a while … Read more
I sent an email to Blogger (my host) today, asking them whether there are any plans to incorporate category and contents features in Blogger. From what I can see, these are not available features at the moment. There is a hack way of doing this, by making individual category page posts comprising links to posts … Read more
According to John Kao in his book “Jamming: the art and discipline of business creativity” Jimmy Carter used the word malaise to describe the state of Americans post-Watergate and Vietnam. In Kao’s view this use of language backfired, because vague psychological language does not get to the mind-set of Americans. Well, being British I guess … Read more