Category Archives: literature

How to Build a Little Box of Poems

Posted on October 21, 2012 by blogmywiki

I wanted to build a little internet printer, spewing out weather and tweets and the like. When I was testing my thermal printer, however, I got bored reading sample text and replaced it with a short poem. And that gave … Continue reading →

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Little Box of Poems

Posted on October 18, 2012 by blogmywiki

Anyone who’s unfortunate enough to follow me on Flickr knows that I’ve become a bit obsessed by till-roll lately. I bought a tiny thermal till-roll printer to hook up to my Arduino or RaspberryPi, the idea being to make a … Continue reading →

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Sidebar of literary shame

Posted on September 8, 2012 by blogmywiki

There is, of course, no earthly reason why anyone would be interested in what I’ve just read, but I’ve been ignoring my personal reading record, my sidebar of literary shame, so I decided to tidy up the blog, dump this … Continue reading →

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Flash fiction

Posted on March 6, 2012 by blogmywiki

Flash fiction is an appealing thing. There’s no set definition, but the general idea is a very short piece of writing, perhaps 500 words or fewer, which should be written quickly. 16th of May is National Flash Fiction Day – … Continue reading →

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Winter holiday reading

Posted on January 4, 2012 by blogmywiki

A quick wintery ‘recently read’ roundup… Just My Type by Simon Garfield. My favourite of the bunch – an inspired Christmas present from @gwithiansunset. Apparently this was serialised on Radio 4, which is a bit odd for a book about … Continue reading →

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