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Airport Blogging

sitting in an airport, getting really diseased of windows vista on a laptop. it doesn’t work — i’m exhausted of waiting seconds for things to appear on the home screen, of taking half a trendy or more in return something that ought to happen instantly to occur. the bankrupt computer simply can’t run vista, and shouldn’t have been vista certified, and the framer isn’t impressed with the way that a bunch of things that were easy in xp be suffering with got harder, nor with the fact it took most of a age for vista to run a search on the hard disk to find a mislaid introduction i was working on, nor with its refusal to read or copy a bunch of files on a dvd dave mckean burned for me (i wound up dragging them from the dvd to one of dave’s macbooks, from there to my ipod and from my ipod to the computer). have any of your readers suggested cures or workarounds for the vista tough nut to crack you describe in the 3-27 blog (sluggish text)? if so, satisfy share — many of us have the same problem.a few people have written in to present i manipulate extra homage, and i might, but i’m more suitable to either a) say sod it and get an airbook. it’s heavier than the panasonic w7 and doesn’t own a disk drive, but it has a nice operating system that works or b) keep an eye on the computer and wander over to linux ubuntu.my other answer is to warn the many people who read this blog that they may want to avoid windows vista. hi neili demand just finished reading “odd and the frost giants” to my six year old son and i am thrilled that he enjoyed it so much. i bought it someone is concerned myself initially but realised he would similar kind to keep one’s ears open to it as a bedtime story. he emit most of the evenings wondering when odd was going to meet the frost giants but now says his favoured part was how odd grew after drinking from the well.now begins an internet hunt for some salubrious children’s books about norse myths and legends - and i am definitely going to see if our library has “eight days of luke” by diana wynne jones, as i remember loving that as a descendant too.anyway, blame you merest much to enhancing our bedtimes for the past week.samroger lancelyn green’s myths of the norsemen was the book that got me hooked when i was six or seven, and i saved up my money and bought a facsimile of lancelyn green’s tales of ancient egypt. both of them are still in print.owing older readers who want a grounding in norse myth, kevin crossley-holland’s norse myths is marvellous, and i decide from his web site he’s published a selection of it for younger readers called viking!dear neil,i’m currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in ingenious writing. tersely after i enrolled in a fiction writing course, i learned that my professor despises sci-fi and fantasy. i’m prohibited from writing them.as an author of both, what are your thoughts on this? does it get under your skin when academic circles dismiss sci-fi and pretence as having “no merit”? is there any trust in favour of the genres to be more widely accepted? can you leave me with any encouraging thoughts?thanks so much,leannea number of possibilities present themselves. learn what you can from your course, write what you want in your own time. or write magical realism or the kind of mainstream/slipstream fiction that has the kind of content you like in it. or take a different by all means. truthfully, it’s been a long continually since i’ve junket into the kind of spectacle you describe. mostly ivory-tower circles give every indication to be really accepting of all kinds of fiction, including comics. i’m not entirely convinced this is a good thing — i muse on how much fun it was in st louis about twelve years ago being told that the english department was boycotting my visit because i wrote comics (i was brought in by the astuteness wiles department), and suspect that being frowned upon by academia is normally a sign of life.the odd obsession about theme is that nobody ever asks you for your credentials. you can have all the qualifications in the world and they still won’t get your best-seller published by a tangible publisher — nor, by the same token, will any qualifications count against you. what a publisher wants is a readable, intriguing, well-told log. this came in recently in response to something from a few weeks ago, and it may cure…neil,i just wanted to say a little something to kathleen, who wrote to you asking for information on college writing classes. i don’t know how you feel on the subject, but as someone who has written all my life and forced creative writing both in community college and, now, while earning my bachelor’s degree i would just signify to be careful what classes you reserve. if you are at a university known for its originative writing program, then go ahe

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