Category: Nerdy Stuff
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Reviewing Sonos, or “I want to build a stereo system out of Lego and I have too much cash!”
Reviewing the Sonos is overdue. I’ve had a Sonos system since early 2013 and, well, I know reviews are supposed to tease you all the way to the end of the many thousands of words I’m writing for free… …the long and the short of it is that Sonos is freakin’ awesome and if you…
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Just in Time: The Pebble Time Steel Review
A lot of people enjoyed my original Pebble review (way back when), so I thought I’d try to do my new Pebble Time Steel some justice. I’m a special flower, as a double Kickstarter supporter, so my edition of the Pebble Time Steel has a nice ‘Champion!’ engraving and trophy on the back. Some Context…
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My Book is Now Magic: The Lumio Review (HT: @hellolumio)
I’m constantly spending money on nerdy and/or wanky crap, and then reviewing it on this site. I even do it constantly without any payment or free things from the manufacturers, can you believe it! This time, I’m gushing about my latest Kickstarter arrival. For those of you who haven’t switched a computer on in a…
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Tom and Nyssa Talk Zombies (with @Cacotopos and @VintageZombie)
When I talk zombies online, I inevitably talk zombies with my Twitter pal Nyssa Harkness, who is writing (and apparently finishing it before she dies) a Masters thesis on zombies in literature and film. OY! Oh hey! Today Nyssa joins me to talk about zombies in film and literature! I’ve marked my text in black and hers…
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Could it be Hue? My Hue update.
You may recall my ranting from such earlier posts as It’s not me, It’s Hue, but I’ve now grown a few months older with my wifi-enabled Hue bulbs, and can make some firmer statements.
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Bioshock Infinite is #InfiniteBS
There, now I’ve got your attention. As part of my loose effort to write something every day this year, I’m reflecting on my experience playing Bioshock Infinite in a single game session while I was sick, on the first day of 2014 (Yes, I have a huge pile of shame full of acclaimed games I’ve…
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Part 3 – Building Your Storefront
This is the final step of my 3 part (and one introduction) series on setting up your own shop of digital short fiction. It’s much shorter and easier than the other parts. You’ll need the links to your products that were generated by FetchApp in the previous step. A thing to bear in mind This…
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Part 1 – Dance with me: Converting a Word .doc into clean HTML for ePub
Well, how could you resist an article with such a sexy, non-technical title? Part 1 – Converting a .doc file into clean HTML To go back to the main article, click here. Introduction The first part of our walkthrough is the hardest: finding a story you can sell. I’ve chosen to sell only previously published…
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Selling Your Shorts All By Your Lonesome
And no, I don’t mean pants. People! Honestly. This is a serious blog. I use swears sometimes. Introduction Books are complicated beasts. Books need legitimacy, and legitimacy is an ISBN. That’s a way for people to order your book. It files you in the Great Big Library in the Cloud. There’s no such unique code…
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I love Hue – A Requirements Specification (Addendum to the Hue Review)
[Update Feb 15, 2014: As time has progressed most of this specification is now redundant. The Hue doesn’t yet manage animations on the Bridge, and I’m not sure it will in the near future, but the rest of it is pretty thorough. I’ll leave this article up for historical purposes, but beware it’s mostly redundant…
Dark Sylvan Ungulate 