My life

I've noticed that Ebay provide a search tracking method now. this helps you spot trends in your site that might bring in more people. all this really does, it tell which what you already knew. If a book sells, it's because people want it. There for it will get a lot of traffic. It cannot tell you what people are after. Abe and the rest give you a wants list, but this only tells you that they MIGHT want the book. Sure, it tell you how many people want it, but you have to trawl through the whole... Sign in to see full entry.

One thing which has occured to me, is that people pay for market information. What I mean by this, is firms wonder what people will buy. They wonder why the hell they won't buy the things they have on sale, and they worry that they might be missing out on a secret way of selling anything to anyone. Now of course this is all crap. But most magazine, and now most web sites, work on this princible. They offer a magic lamp, that once rubbed, will tell you the secrets of why your five year old... Sign in to see full entry.

Have decided to try and make some money writing none fiction stuff. In the old days, the writing guides would have said: write for a magazine. Now of course it's the Net or nothing. I'm not convinced that people do make any money writing articles for web sites. If they were anything like me, the designers would simply lift the copy off another site. Why pay some one for some thing you could do yourself, for free? But hell, maybe people do amke money. If you Google: cash paid for articles, you... Sign in to see full entry.

Sorry to hear that another trooper from the Black Watch regiment, has been picked off. I wonder how many have to die before Tony backs down? Thatcher only lost two hundred in the Falklands, so he's got a lot of bodies to go yet. Steve Sign in to see full entry.

Not much happening really. Can't bring myself to enter anything that would make any sense. What with George in Hospital and the Consumer credit council sorting out my bankruptcy, I'm not in the mood. The novel is going well enough, but just can't make that leap to put anything real down. Poor me! Steve Sign in to see full entry.

Of course there is the most obviose flaw in the Richard Branson idea, what do you do once you get there? As pointed out in the last coment, there is nothing to do there, other than come back again! Now the barrow load of money he wants for this trip, would have to deliver a lot more for me. I would at least want to see a Klingon Bird of Prey or the Soup Dragon! However Mr Branson can only get you there and back. Hopefuly. Until you can play tennis on Mars, or sip a martin whilst watching the sun... Sign in to see full entry.

Good luck to Richard Branson with his tourists to space idea. Can't see it working really, as it is so expensive, and you might run out of millionares after a while. But whilst there is still a good crop you might as well take their money off them. Nothing much will happen in space, until you can send them to another planet, or body. The Moon; Mars, anything like that. But even NASA cannot manage that up till now. What we need is a breakthrough! Wornhole exploiting machines, that can warp space.... Sign in to see full entry.

Being a big fan of Asimov, I was wondering what ever happened to his idea about the Foundation being able to predict the future? Computer now are so powerful, they can run economic models to run the stock market, the way they want it. So how far are they in predicting the whole future? In my opinion, not far. Sign in to see full entry.

Sspace elevators! Witchflower got me thinking about something, and that's what is the cheapest and safest way into space? A rail link strait up. There was Russian scientist, whoes name escapes me now, that first put forward the idea. Of course Arthur C Clarke brought it to it's logical conclusion with his science fiction works. Can't remember the name of the first one, set in Shi Lanka. But the latter 2001 books has mankind living in huge towers that stretch to the edge of space. This would... Sign in to see full entry.

With the death of Chriss Reaves, I can't help thinking how this stem cell research thing will pan out. Vivisection is a big issue here, and I can see how the multi nationals are working it. If they close down in the Uk, Europe or the US where will they go? China and Africa would not only welcome these companies but present them with standards of ethics which would scare Mary Shelley. Here they could experiment on human being fare beyond the wildest dreams of Dr Menglar. There would be no... Sign in to see full entry.