Mostly by Knight

Veterans’ Memorial Day: 11 of November

admin — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:55:54 +0000

Had he been alive, this past weekend my father, Frank Knight, would have been joining his fellow veterans at the Cenotaph on Whitehall, London in the annual parade. He left his squadron as Flight Lieutenant, when it was disbanded - I’ve always suspected that he would have preferred to continue in the RAF after the [...]

The “33 Worst Mistakes Writers Make” series - together

peterknight — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:47:20 +0000

I was setting up 'the shop' on my web page (still in Dreamweaver, unpublished, but coming along); found the series of books for writers at Holly Lilsle's shop, the Hollyshop. As I got them together one more has been announced - 'Worst Mistakes Writers Make About San Francisco'. But here we are, all together:

Beautiful highways?

peterknight — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:50:39 +0000

Somebody in this region tried this some years back: design a garden, with trees, flowerbeds, shrubbery and all, alongside a highway - it’s not too hard to do, as long as there’s some way of providing a water supply and some people willing to undertake a bit of regular maintenance (here, along Provincial Route 5 in Cordoba, Argentina, had the fire brigade of a town nearby provide irrigation services but it went to weed when enthusiasm from the volunteer gardeners ran out).

Crime and Violence!

admin — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:49:59 +0000

I had to delete the original post last night. Something strange happened with the formatting and it became a long narrow column (as used in some mobile services, I think). Here’s the gist of it: <!– @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } –> La Voz del Interior, the local daily, [...]

Been warned: “Mostly” is mostly … boring!

admin — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:41:53 +0000

Johnathan Morrow, on the Copyblogger blog (founded in 2006 by Brian Clark and which is a very interesting and useful place to get stuff on this arcane thing of an Internet Presence has a very thought provoking post: “How to be Interesting” - Copyblogger All the sins of being a bore: I have committed most of them! [...]

“Getting into print”: A (not so) brief tale of books (3)

admin — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:58:46 +0000

Drupa, the printing industry’s largest fair (held every four years in Düsseldorf) has ended … and this ‘brief tale’ turned into an assignment - fortunately, finished now: off line and in the hands of the client. Meanwhile, visit the site, it’s worthwhile: Drupa So this tale of books got left behind in the middle ages when my [...]

“Getting into print”: A brief tale of books (2)

admin — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:35:03 +0000

There were many editions of the Book of the Dead, from Egyptian relics. It was a tale that described their notion of afterlife. An instruction manual for entry into the Afterlife. They were printed on papyrus generally, and paled in the sarcophagus or coffin of the deceased. It was certainly priestly work and [...]

“Getting into print”: A brief tale of books (1)

peterknight — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:55:27 +0000

Stories are as old as humans, and publishing not far behind. These paintings record something significant, to some people (most certainly hunters) about 16,000 years ago near what is now called Lascaux, in France. We can don’t know why they chose to publish these pictures on the rock walls of a cave but can [...]

Kindle and co.: A threat to books and publishers?

admin — Sun, 18 May 2008 22:51:37 +0000

The Amazon Kindle is very expensive but selling well, apparently. I was shown one recently and despite my love for books I couldn’t help liking the lil’ thing. It’s a cute gadget, smaller than I expected and the “electronic paper” is agreeable; not at all like a computer screen. It works like paper anyway; [...]

“Superior”is a wobbly word.

admin — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:48:05 +0000

I was in the city the other day, in the course of my monthly pilgrimage to the temples of moneys (banks) to render obeisance (debts) as befits a humble servant of The System. But in the bank precisely, there was a vicious little argument. The details are not relevant other than one party felt slurred [...]