Monthly Archive: May 2012

May 21

Chuck’s little video

I’ll be coming back to the blog soon, but in the meantime here’s a wonderful advertisement for Chuck McKenzie’s Notion Unlimited bookstore in Melbourne. I love Kevin.

May 10

Fan Writery Links #2

I’m busy at the moment – you’ll see why shortly – so I haven’t had time to blog.  (One of these day I’ll do those other Hugo posts that I’ve been threatening to write).  In the meantime, here’s some links to the brilliant thoughts of a bunch of people I respect.  (All of whom should …

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May 05

Number Crunching the Crunched Numbers – 10 Years of the Ditmars #2

Based on comments made by others to my previous post, I thought I’d dig a little deeper… which means more fun with Excel!  (I apologise in advance to anyone on LJ as the charts don’t seem to come out, but feel free to check them out on my WordPress blog). Novel From 2003 to 2008 …

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May 03

Number crunching 10 year of the Ditmars

I was sitting with Jules last week watching The Voice on fast forward (we record it then zip through all the boring bits) and I suddenly has this urge to number crunch the Ditmars.  Admittedly, it was an urge sparked by the recent Ditmar ballot which can be found here. Of course, whenever anyone says …

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May 01

Kickstarter Signal Boost

A couple of Kickstarter projects that are worth boosting. The Brydge iPad keyboard doesn’t need my help.  It’s well and truly funded.  But when I saw it, I needed it.  and best of all it comes out in mid October, just for my birthday. And with 12 days to go, it’s certainly worth your while …

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