There are lots of great things about the iPhone. The killer feature is the internet access. The fact that you can really actually browse the internet on the move is a huge thing. Like the mobile phone before it, this is such a huge feature that people don’t know they need it before they get [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Making Friends
Posted in Articles on October 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Are there an even number of even numbers?
Posted in Articles on October 26, 2009 | 6 Comments »
The other day, I was suddenly struck by the question, “Are there an even number of even numbers?”. I mean, is it something that is known?, can it be calculated?, and then I went on to worry about the rather obvious follow-up question involving odd numbers. There has actually been a lot of confusion about [...]
Creativity isn’t all big shirts and flouncing around Italy
Posted in Uncategorized on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Katherine has been being creative over on her blog. Please check out these two posts before you continue reading all of this: http://kathall.co.uk/blog/2009/10/are-monsters-creative/ and http://kathall.co.uk/blog/2009/10/the-wonders-of-pritt-stick/. I wrote a comment on her site that got a bit out of hand. So here it is – it’s the creative process, writ large. I am not sure I [...]
Who edits the editors?
Posted in Uncategorized on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Christine asked two important questions in the comments on the Draft Dodgers post: I’m curious who you select to read your work along with you – friends, family, perfect strangers? Is it hard for them to be brutally honest? I know how I chose the set of people I am using but I’m not sure [...]
Draft dodging
Posted in Uncategorized on October 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
My muse is like Sharon Stone
Posted in Uncategorized on October 2, 2009 | 7 Comments »
I totally subscribe to the Elizabeth Gilbert theory that it is much healthier to act as the Roman and Greeks did and imagine that genius and inspiration are seperate to yourself. Obviously we know that this isn’t true in reality. We know that when we sit down to a piece of work we sit down [...]
