Archive for February, 2011

The importance of backups

February 27, 2011

In the last 24 hours it has come to light that a large number of users of Google’s popular GMail and Google Apps services have lost all of their email.  This is potentially not just a short term outage, but may be a permanent thing with no chance of recovery of the data. Leaving aside [...]

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Isabelle – the production begins

February 26, 2011

This year is going to be a busy one.  It is only the end of February and already I’ve published my first book, made a start on planning out the second, and have one film (The Cobra Lily) in post-production.  But there is more to be done in order to keep the momentum going, and so [...]

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My first SFX Weekender

February 12, 2011

Last weekend I went to my first Sci-Fi convention, the SFX Weekender in Camber Sands, UK.  I have to say that I had no idea what to expect beyond having watched Galaxy Quest a few times and bumped into some Klingons walking down the Strand (and  the excellent “Chuck vs Tom Sawyer” episode of course), [...]

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I published a book

February 10, 2011

It’s published! Yes, I finally did it. Through the Square Window is now available on Kindle, and I can return to some semblance of normality.  This was one of those projects that started as a “wouldn’t it be nice if…” and turned into an obsession as I got nearer and nearer to completion and realised [...]

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