Category Archives: General
Happy Stars Wars day!
ShareMay the 4th be with you!
Just went to see Jeff Beck, live at the Tivoli, Brisbane (Australia)
It’s true, Jeff Beck is the guitarist’s guitarist!
Finding out about Twitter Plugins for WordPress
ShareIt’s almost more trouble than it’s worth to find the right plugin for getting your blog updating your Twitter account. FaceBook seems to be no problem, yet, but tweeting?
Follow me please
ShareAnyone who wants to know me a bit better can follow me on Twitter @Tobias_Ware
New phones are hard work
ShareI don’t know why I bother, really; well, actually, I do know why. I was not happy with my previous phone’s performance and I was bitten by that green envy bug when my partner got her TOUCH-SENSITIVE phone. Well, I’ve got one now (a Samsung JET icon), and, after fiddling with it as you do [...]
Change Damaged Characters
ShareWords and phrases that mean something I really resonate to the phrase I now use as my blog’s title “Change Damaged Characters”. Why? First, it is a term used in copyediting in the Common Proofreading Marks handy reference chart I use. It indicates that the characters (letters etc) that are circled in the text have [...]
Some guests are always welcome.
ShareI had to include a photo of a regular visitor to my home. Although the shot is dark ( I didn’t want to use the flash and scare them) you can see mum and baby quite clearly. Mum is a bit shy at the moment, due no doubt to the presence of baby on her [...]
Why there are no fairies at the bottom of my garden.
ShareYou’ve probably heard that exclamation about fairies living at the bottom of the garden. I don’t have any in mine. Now, don’t get me wrong. I know a thing or two about these creatures of myth and fancy, and most of what I know would make your skin crawl. They are not ‘nice’, they are neither ‘little’ [...]
Lite ‘n’ Easy … is it really any good?
ShareI had my doubts, I really did. I know the adverts are there to try to convince you to sign up to this long term goal of losing weight – I do live in a very obese population. My partner, Jeanette, wanted to try this one and, after some deliberation and an escape clause or [...]
Brother, why is my page dingy?
ShareI own a Brother HL-2140 mono laser printer and it has been chugging along just fine until recently. I decided to be ‘sensible and practical’ and bought a recycled ink refill for the toner cartridge. Big mistake! The pages of my résumé did not print out as crisp type on a snow white sheet. No, the type was muted [...]
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