As a child, I was always reminded of the social etiquette that there were taboo subjects at the dinner table. The big three, of course, were sex, politics and religion. Little has changed in my mind except that my dinner table has been replaced by my blog, where I try to set the same rules.…
As many of my readers already know, Yalla, my English Cocker Spaniel and man about town and cafés is my assistant, editor, ideas man, and general factotum around my little writing abode. While his job description remains a little vague, it does seem that sleeping forms a major part of his workday. Perhaps all those…
Twitter is a strange beast in the world of social media. It operates on an undefined set of rules that are so vague it is even unclear if Twitter itself is sure as to how it works. It’s a forum so full of clutter and textural pollution that it’s a wonder really why anyone bothers…
It all started with MP3 players and then, of course, the iPod. Free music, free music, free music until Apple and iTunes came along and at least settled the digital music market and returned it to some level of sanity. However, the ratio of free to paid songs residing on iPods still remained heavily on…
The last few days have seen some very funny and very sad attempts by a number of authors who have tried to convince me to buy their books. From the lazy and repetitive to the imaginative and then to some who really need a course in basic human reactions to people making a complete idiot…
As is my habit each morning, I click on Google News and catch up with a brief outline of the top stories around the world. When I did this morning, I finally came to the conclusion that as a society, we have plummeted to the depths of despair, if not outright stupidity. One would expect the top news…
