So I found my way to the school’s talk on internet safety last night. It was for parents with kids in primary seven or first year of high school. And now more than 24 hours later I’m dithering about what to write. On the one hand (if the speakers were to be believed) the web […]
What’s your favourite waste of time?
Time is hurling me towards my book deadline at the moment. And you’d have thought the pressure and importance of the whole thing would focus my mind, wouldn’t you? However, instead of writing, one rainy Saturday afternoon I find myself googling that song from the eighties by Owen Paul. Like you do. And on the […]
Phew what a talker
Newspaper rules. Have you ever wondered why some stories get in the papers and some don’t? Who decides we’re interested in Cheryl Cole, Katie Price and Prince William this week? Well, news folk will say it’s because the public is interested – or even, more pompously, it’s in the public interest which isn’t the same […]
My name in Lego, a happy box and a three-way split
Sarcmarc inventor LOL
Other things I’ve learned There’s a new punctuation mark. It’s called the Sarcmark and for $!.99 you can use it as often you want to let people know when you’re being sarky. I can’t make up my mind whether this is sheer genius and just what communication is calling out for or yet more e-piffle.I’ll […]