Blue Moon Rising – By Simon R. Green Millenium Fantasy : ISBN 1-85798-987-2 What an excellent novel! The heroes are an aging Dragon who’s hoard is a butterfly collection, a sarcastic unicorn, a bad-tempered princess and a cynical prince that rides said unicorn! (Ahem). The goblins that inevitably turn up in any most fantasy novels […]
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Quote of the day : When people keep telling you that you can’t do a thing, you kind of like to try it ~ Margaret Chase Smith (US senator, also born today) Picture of the day : Today’s photograph shows one of Andrew Gormley rusting, iron-cast statues, dressed in a bright, knitted sweater and looking
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Quote of the day : You can’t control all the crazy stuff that happens to you. All you can control is the way you handle it. ~ Amy Lee Pic of the day : I was working on another article (about photography) and reminded that while the rose-tinted, Pollyanna view of the world is nice,
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Quote of the day : I am a world-class procrastinator. I’m only an actor because I’ve been putting off being a writer for 35 years. ~ Bill Nighy (He is 64 today. Happy birthday Bill!) Pic of the day : Lacking the weather for winter wonderland scenes, I’ve dug out a photo of a frosty
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Gaming addiction is a major issue Warcraft and games like it can be addictive, addictive beyond the point of obsession and off into the scary realms and genuine risks of destroying your health, schooling, job, career, relationships, marriage…. I know how bad I am, but that’s me, I understand if it wasn’t this it would
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You know when you have been playing too much World of Warcraft when… More than a few such thought cross my mind from time to time, so I trawled a lot of forums etc for more and edited the entries to come up with some of the funniest and sadly true one-liners about Warcraft addicts.
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Daily Post, started 8:09:10 on 11/12/13 OK, I wasn’t out of bed quite that early this morning, but still, it is 11-12-13 Quote of the day : If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being?
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I was following this trend on Twitter – #FiveWordTechHorrors – and realised it seemed familiar. Then I remembered that one job. You know the one, a new client is having problems and pulls you in as a consultant to help them make the deadline. This is your first day… Perhaps you remember a similar conversation
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