Month: November 2008
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Ijustine, me and seesmic
Reading Time: < 1 minuteNo face to face meeting but I appear in the seesmic plug by Ijustine for the Macbreak Episode . It’s quite amusing to see me in the same video clip as her 🙂
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The fifty years of the City Club cinema in Pully.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTonight I went to the cinema and saw two films at a cinema that has turned half a century old. The most interesting of those event is a 1930s film with a live performance by a jazz band touring switzerland with that film. I also saw an Avant premiere for a…
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I made it to 50,000 words in 25 days. I won.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThat’s it. I’ve made it. I wrote 50,000 words in 25 days, That’s an average of 2000 words a day for 25 days. That’s a lot of writing. That’s a lot of re-writing. It was fun meeting some of these writers over the past two weeks and I look forward to…
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Now at fourty five thousand words
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’m now at fourty five thousand words. I’ve written those words in just 24 days. That’s an average of 1875 per day. I have another 5000 to go and I will have reached the end of this year’s nanowrimo and that’s when the editing will start.
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Fourty thousand words, ten thousand to go
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday I spent the afternoon in Starbucks in Geneva but found no inspiration there. I was surrounded by NaNoWriMers from around Switzerland and a few of them were writing quite succesfully. some of us though just spent a few hours talking. That was good too. It’s only as I was driving…
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Youtube live is a dissapointment, and it hasn’t even started.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn an age where mobile video streaming is cheap in comparison to the past it’s a shame that youtube do not showcase this technology and have three hundred people streaming from one city for example. Why is it that they chose to cover live music events instead. Of course music is cheap…
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Twitter hoped for the best, fell down as a result.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYet again twitter hoped for the best and as a result went down for several hours. It’s a simple illustration of why I remain critical of the way twitter is run. What I love best is the “It’s a problem we knew about…”
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Over thirty one thousand Words written in 18 days for Nanowrimo
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWith just under two weeks of writing left for Nanowrimo I have reached over 31,000 words in that space of time. That’s an average of 1750 words a day. It’s been a good experience so far and its now that I’m starting to worry about the proofreading part. It takes long…