Posted on by Craig Faulkner
The astute among you, and those who read these blogs on my website as opposed to on Facebook, may have noticed that the website itself has changed its appearance. Gone is the narrow grey design; replaced instead by something wider and bluer. It's still based on the same core technology (WordPress) and still h… Read more »
Posted on by Craig Faulkner
While I no longer go out of my way to watch television, there are still a tiny handful of shows that I am partial to. Even so, in these cases, I will normally purchase a DVD or blu-ray boxed set of the entire series rather than watch it on television when it is scheduled to be on. On occasion, however, even t… Read more »
Posted on by Craig Faulkner
It's odd to think that at the end of the month, my blog website will be three years old. Something I originally decided to do just to keep myself motivated when it came to writing seems to have lasted far longer than I expected. That basically means I have a website full of three years' worth of inane ramblin… Read more »
Posted on by Craig Faulkner
I'm not a fan of 'txt speak'. I'd go as far as to say that I loathe it. I think it's lazy. I think it's incoherent. I think it's incomprehensible. And I despise having to translate it into English before I can make any sense of it. For those lucky enough not to have to deal with 'txt speak', it's basically an… Read more »
Posted on by Craig Faulkner
An overuse of unnecessary words has lead to a national shortage of adverbs according to reports from the Oxford University Press, publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary. The effects on conversations across the country have been devastating; creating a string of sentences that are both punchy and to the p… Read more »
Posted on by Craig Faulkner
I seem to spend a significant proportion of my waking life sitting in front of a computer. Five days a week I'll spend a little over seven hours in front of the computer I use at work—a machine I've come to call Deep Thought, after the computer in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, because it takes so long… Read more »
Posted on by Craig Faulkner
Time, it seems, can work both for and against us. Six months ago, free time was something I had in abundance. Now I can scarcely find it for looking. This week, for example, I have plans every single day. In fact, the only 'free time' I have worthy of note will be a handful of hours at the weekend. And even t… Read more »
Posted on by Craig Faulkner
I started the year with high hopes. They were fuelled, not by evidence, but by determination. 2008 didn't end particularly well. Among other, more personal issues, the recession had started to kick in and several of my friends and colleagues had just lost their jobs. It was an uncertain time. I resolved that… Read more »
Posted on by Craig Faulkner
It comes to something when the topic I've chosen to write about is none other than 'writer's block'. The blogs I've written recently have been increasingly difficult to write due to an apparent shortage of ideas. If I were writing fiction—which I frequently do in my spare time—it wouldn't be an issue. I quite… Read more »
Posted on by Craig Faulkner
The funny thing about ambition is how it doesn't always seem to fit the person. My own ambitions, realistic as they probably aren't, include fronting a successful rock band and authoring a published novel, to name just a couple. Sometimes this surprises people—particularly the first one. I suppose I'm a fairl… Read more »