Just a Short Rant, I Promise!

I’m grumpy.
Not that I’m THAT keen to actually sell (as opposed to give away) DEAD(ish), since I honestly don’t think my writing’s at the stage where it’s worth paying for… but FFS, what’s with the American-centric attitudes in the companies out there? Amazon is US-authors-only. Scribd is free for anyone, but if you want to [...]

Blahhhhh

This describes me perfectly today:

Weird. Just Weird.

My spam queue for this site is down to zero. Huh. There’s the answer to spamming issues – just post in lolcats. You know, pretty much anything can be said in lolcats. I’m waiting for the first lolcatnovel to come out. Oh wait, that’d be a badly-spelt picture book.
C KITTEH RUN.
RUN, KITTEH, RUUUUN!!
Meh. What a [...]

Time to Make My Feelings Known

It does, you know.

Is Customer Service Hitting New Lows?

Check out this news article.
QANTAS leaves customers sitting in the airport overnight, then tells them to go home and book new flights.
Farrrrrk!
And they wondered why they had to call the police to quell an incipient riot?
Then there’s Virgin Broadband – wholly owned, by the way, by Optus. Richard Branson, I liked you before you sold [...]

Writers’ Funny

How Much Do I Love Smashwords?

Continuing with the writing/ebook obsession…
A few months ago, I discovered Smashwords. It’s a site which allows anyone to upload an ebook, free of charge, then sell said ebook on the site – obviously, giving Smashwords a cut of the proceeds. But an interesting angle is that it’s also completely free to upload an ebook, then [...]

The Obsession

Have you noticed that I’ve been a tad obsessed with writing, lately?
To be honest, it’s concerning me juuuuust a little. I don’t usually get this into anything. Except that, well, I’ve always had a thing for writing, and it’s always been a back-of-the-mind obsession, I guess. It’s just that now it’s coming to the fore [...]

Holy Crap, It’s a Pedestrian! Kill it!!!

I was walking from work to the train station last night, when my street-crossing became slightly more complex. A ute was parked on the street. In the middle of the lane. Its lights were on, its driver was in his or her seat… they were just parked there, waiting. For something. Me being the paranoid [...]