Sunday 29 January 2023
Monday 23 January 2023
Spiv kit - special offer
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Today's special offer, available in three (count 'em) colours - The Spiv Kit. Designed for all con operators, featuring selective memory, denial, remonstration and obfuscation. It's a bargain in all situations, creating ways for money to be stuffed in the safe, as nailed by today's Grauniad cartoon.
Saturday 21 January 2023
人工知能 Artificial Intelligence
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Friday 20 January 2023
Buzzword compliance for 2023
Thursday 12 January 2023
Get the Party Started?
Wednesday 11 January 2023
Cozy Crime
I decided to set it around where I live, but to change the names of places to protect the innocent. I've loosely based the format on an Agatha Christie, but by Part 2 it starts to drift into more familiar Ed Adams territory.
There are early signals of this because the mansion where it is set, 'Magister Grange', has a helipad. It's also got a large cast, in the way of some Agatha novels. So many that I have to keep a printout by the side of me when I'm writing.
I suppose I could have finished it in 2022, but instead it will be a new style of my novel ready to grace 2023.
Tuesday 10 January 2023
3%
Yet yesterday I was suited, in corporate offices, in discussion using Powerpoint and having proper minutes.
In unrelated activity I'm still on the clock about my latest novel - Cozy - too.
And later today I go out to help set up the AV for a presentation. and then next week I'm running a film show for German Speakers. Kein Problem, as they say.
I received a reminder from my podcast service today. I realise I've stalled part way through 'The Circle' and there are a few people who want to know what happens next. I guess I'll have to restart that again, although my listeners are somewhat limited in numbers.
Somehow I'm also keeping my cycling going (not yesterday though). Instead, on foot, I got wet from the horizontal rain around Exeter,
Still, if I can be 91 miles ahead of pace, then I'm not doing so badly. I realised, by looking at 2019, that my targets in miles were: Blue 1000, Silver 2000, Gold 3000, Platinum 4000.
So I received an immediate upgrade from Blue to Silver, having achieved around 2,200 miles last year.
I know it's only my own daft targets, but it still makes me feel better.