February 14, 2012

Die, Fluffy Wuffy, die

Blogger Matt Hayden

Thanks to a remark he left on another website I used to win, I discovered the entertaining blog of Matt “not the cricketer” Hayden enticingly titled Die, Fluffy Wuffy, Die. He writes more wittily than I could ever hope to do about current political topics. I don’t think he’s from Perth, but he’s well across [...]

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Poor handwriting

Messy handwriting

I’m embarrassed how poor my handwriting has become. It was never good, but it’s become worse. I struggled to write neatly in primary school; now it’s impossible. I can print letters okay, but cursive script is atrocious. Today I wrote Christmas messages for some key contacts. I could barely read them myself. I blame two [...]

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Newspaper novels: The truth will make you fret

There aren’t many novels about newspapers. Stories involving print journalists are far fewer than those about lawyers, soldiers and police for example. That’s a little surprising when you consider that journalists are writers. But when you think about it, we are craftsmen while novelists are artists. We ply a trade while they follow their creative [...]

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Christmas parties

Does anyone share my view that Christmas parties are overdone? I'm finding it a strain just keeping track of invitations let alone responding to them all and attending a reasonable number. I'm grateful that people think to invite me, but in a town the size of Kalgoorlie it's a similar guest list at most of [...]

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Zoho virtual office

I’m typing this in ZohoWriter, a web-based word processor. It’s similar to Writely, but offers a complete suite with online equivalents of desktop programs for spreadhseets and presentations. Funnily enough, I’m writing this on the day that Google formally integrated its online spreadsheet application with Writely to create Google Docs. I like the look and [...]

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