Light At The End…

A random collection of thoughts

Yearly archives: 2014

I can’t believe the capabilities of a tablet this size. I’ve been using various Android/Apple tablets for some time, but they’ve always been a bit of a compromise for me. Although they have plenty of good apps, they’ve always been an additional device and never my main device because all […]

Linx 7 tablet

December 6, 2014 in Reviews / Technology tagged Gadget / Linx / Tablet / Windows by Jonathan Rudderham

It’s been a long month, with many things distracting me away from NaNoWriMo, but today, two days early, I’ve achieved what I thought, on many occasions, was the impossible this year. I’ve written 50,000 words. Almost completing “Nick’s Story”, the segment of the currently-named-and-may-be-retitled work-in-progress The Curupiri Elixir, that’s an […]

NaNoWriMo 2014, Day 28

November 28, 2014 in NaNoWriMo / Word Count tagged NaNoWriMo / Scrivener / wordcount by Jonathan Rudderham

Acer DA1 24 inch Touchscreen All-in-One PC (Nvidia T33 1.6GHz, 1GB RAM, 16GB SSD, Wi-Fi, Camera, Integrated Graphics, Android 4.1.2) I almost didn’t buy this device because I couldn’t find any reference to “DA1” anywhere either on Acer’s website, or elsewhere except on a couple of mail order catalogue websites […]

Acer DA241HL AIO

November 17, 2014 in Reviews / Technology tagged Acer / AIO / All-in-one / Gadget / Technology by Jonathan Rudderham

Today, with more than a little help from the NaNoWriMo Kent Facebook Group, I doubled my previous word count and sneaked over the 10,000 word line. Whether that means I did good today, or that I just did badly for the last eight days, I’m not so sure. Words have […]

NaNoWriMo 2014, Day 9

November 9, 2014 in NaNoWriMo / Word Count tagged characters / NaNoWriMo / Novelling / wordcount by Jonathan Rudderham

The combination of work plus streaming with a cold delayed the start of my NaNoWriMo this year, so much that I wrote nothing for the first two days. On the third day, I had to make a decision. I either got some words down, or I gave up much hope […]

NaNoWriMo 2014, Day 4

November 5, 2014 in Character Building / NaNoWriMo / Word Count tagged characters / NaNoWriMo / wordcount by Jonathan Rudderham

Paper is flat, e-readers are flat (almost), but books look best in 3D. Having a book printed up to sit on your shelf is a great moment, surpassed perhaps only by having it taking pride of place on someone else’s shelf. What of that time before the book is complete? […]

Creating Virtual Book Covers

October 22, 2014 in Books / Covers / Procrastination / Software tagged Book Cover / book covers / NaNoWriMo / Preview / procrastination by Jonathan Rudderham

A Most Excellent Match by Matt Fitton is the second story in the Big Finish audio release of Recorded Time and Other Stories. Peri is trapped in a virtual reality world of Jane Austen, where her biggest worry is which husband to pick (Darcy or the Doctor!). The Doctor tries […]

150. Recorded Time and Other Stories

October 15, 2014 in Big Finish Audios / Big Finish Main Range / Doctor Who / Reviews tagged A Most Excellent Match / Big Finish / Colin Baker / Doctor Who / Matt Fitton / Nicola Bryant / Recorded Time and Other Stories by Jonathan Rudderham

Paradoxcide by Richard Dinnick is the second story in the Big Finish audio release of Recorded Time and Other Stories. While fixing the TARDIS, the 6th Doctor picks up a distress call which Peri recognises as being in her own voice. They visit the lost planet of Sendos, a […]

150. Recorded Time and Other Stories

October 13, 2014 in Big Finish Audios / Big Finish Main Range / Doctor Who / Reviews tagged Big Finish / Colin Baker / Doctor Who / Nicola Bryant / Paradoxicide / Recorded Time and Other Stories / Richard Dinnick by Jonathan Rudderham

Big Finish‘s latest TV tie-in special offer is Grand Theft Cosmos by Eddie Robson. From the title, you’d expect this to be some kind of video-game inspired spoof on “Grand Theft Auto”. I’ve never played it, so I wouldn’t know if it’s related, but the seemingly linked title is what […]

Grand Theft Cosmos

October 12, 2014 in Big Finish Audios / Doctor Who / Reviews tagged Big Finish / Christopher Benjamin / Doctor Who / Eddie Robson / Katerina Olsson / Paul McGann / Sheridan Smith / The Eighth Doctor by Jonathan Rudderham

“I’ve walked a hundred miles to the Vet, had something awful puffed up my nose, and itchy stuff put on my neck. What do you want from me? Happy-go-bl**din’-lucky, or something?” –Summer

I would walk a hundred miles…

October 11, 2014 in Summer tagged Summer by Jonathan Rudderham

“Someone made me go walkies in the pouring rain. I don’t mind that, but if you want me to do all the ‘Sit’, ‘Stay’, ‘Come’, ‘Up’, ‘Down’, ‘Fetch’, ‘Bring It Back’, ‘Leave It’, and gawd knows how many other words you have in your vocabulary, then you can at least […]

Rain

October 9, 2014 in Summer tagged Summer by Jonathan Rudderham

As I only seem to have the odd half-hour available to listen to things at present, I started listening to the Big Finish audio adventure Recorded Time and Other Stories. This is a collection of four single-episode short Doctor Who stories featuring the sixth Doctor (Colin Baker) with Peri (Nicola […]

150. Recorded Time and Other Stories

October 9, 2014 in Big Finish Audios / Big Finish Main Range / Doctor Who / Reviews tagged Big Finish / Catherine Harvey / Colin Baker / Doctor Who / Nicola Bryant / Recorded Time / Recorded Time and Other Stories by Jonathan Rudderham