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New book - Inescapable Data: Harnessing the Power of Convergence

Wednesday, April 27th, 2005


I have just received a complimentary copy of a book that I contributed a very small amount to -It is called "Inescapable Data: Harnessing the Power of Convergence " by John Webster and Chris Stakutis (It was Chris that interviewed me and extracted my contributions with carefully crafted questions). My small contribution is on how [...]

Writing and being “in the zone”

Wednesday, April 27th, 2005


Stephen King talks about being "in the zone" when he writes - a place where the words flow and the real world melts away and all that is left with is the world created by the words on the page or the screen. "Writing fiction" is a lot different to "writing technical" which is [...]

Back at the (Microsoft) Word mill …

Tuesday, April 19th, 2005


The past few days I'm back at the keyboard plugging away at a new writing project again but watch this space for details in the coming months. I'm never "not writing", there's always something to do - emails, promotional material, website, blog, preparing the next project proposal. I once read that Stephen King [...]

Beginning Programming - The Book!

Monday, April 18th, 2005


A few minutes ago the guy from the Royal Mail just came to the door and handed me a massive brown box from Indianapolis - this could only mean one thing - Comps!
And I was right - these are the comp copies for our (Kathie and I) latest book to come out of [...]

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