Jul 17, 2015 | Entertainment
As you may remember, I spent many of my formative years in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. One of the first things I realized upon arriving to that fair city was that speaking English for years in Greece had not prepared me for the thrill of actually communicating with the...
Jul 8, 2015 | Entertainment
I used the expression Flame Wars with a friend, and she confessed to be unfamiliar with the term. As a service to my friends, here is the definition: An argument between Internet users who repeatedly provoke each other with personal attacks through e-mail, comments,...
Jul 7, 2015 | Entertainment
Rise of the Machines Jobs board Monster.com ran an online poll recently, asking people how threatened they feel by robots. Namely, how likely they find it that a robot will be doing their work in a few years’ time. Most people are in “robot overlord denial,” it...
Jun 19, 2015 | Entertainment
I saw the other day in The Independent that Amazon is selling this 100 per cent cotton towel for only 0.8 trillion dollars (plus $4.49 shipping) – a steal. Naturally, I had to share. No, not for the towel itself, much as I can imagine everyone leaving this page...
Jun 18, 2015 | Entertainment
Old-time followers of my blog may remember my post titled Worst Book Titles Ever. I recently saw these old children’s books in Skai’s website, and just had to share. Enjoy, and apologies in advance for my cringe-worthy comments! There’s a word for...
Jun 8, 2015 | Entertainment
As you may know, my day job is in web design, through my company, Istomedia. I often daydream about working as a full-time author, but that may have to wait until I’m a pensioner, it seems. Still, reading posts like this, from Unplag.com, anti-plagiarism online...
Jun 2, 2015 | Entertainment
I found this on Tickld and just had to share! According to the original post, if you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. And, after trying the verses, a Frenchman...
May 19, 2015 | Entertainment, Writing
Editor Neil Clarke is editing a number of magazines that accept short stories, including Clarkesworld Magazine, a Hugo Award-winning and World Fantasy Award nominated science fiction and fantasy magazine, and Forever Magazine. He recently reported they had just...
Apr 28, 2015 | Entertainment, Random Musings
Now, please don’t get me wrong. I love helping out others, especially Indie authors. After all, I wouldn’t be here today had not some lovely people taken the time to help me out. However, I do suffer from a chronic shortage of time. This is partly because...
Apr 26, 2015 | Entertainment
Continuing on the subject of words, you may have heard me say now and again how I marvel at the beauty and flexibility of the English language. So why aren’t these beauties found on BuzzFeed part of our everyday conversations already? Errorist (n) Someone who...
