Author: KokkieH

We interrupt our regular programming for this special update

Shortly after my last post the notification area lit up with a cute little trophy and when I clicked on it I got this:

Yes, dear readers, I have reached one hundred followers. Granted, some of them are not readers, but just spam-followers. Still, this is considered a milestone in blogland and I appreciate having reached it. Thanks to those who are following who actually do read what I write. This blog wouldn’t be the same without you. And a special word of welcome to the follower who pushed me over the mark, number 100, Steven Fox from SFoxWriting. I hope you enjoy it here.

Let me also take this moment to announce that this site will be undergoing some construction over the next couple of days. Some of the pages will be temporarily down and the overall appearance is going to change a few times as I experiment with a new look. Everything should be back to normal by Sunday.

Have a terrific weekend.

Search term shenanigans I

I’ve been watching on jealously for a while now as some of the bloggers I follow periodically post some of the more interesting search terms that have led potential readers to their sites. I also have been perusing my stats page regularly hoping for some wacky searches, but to no avail – they’ve all been depressingly boring and related to the topics I am writing about. But at last I have a few that I consider worth sharing with you (though some of them are merely shameless self-promotion of some of my older posts). Continue reading “Search term shenanigans I” →

Some more Dan Brown…the last time…I promise

I don’t hate Dan Brown. I honestly don’t. I own four of his books, after all (okay, five, but I got the last one for free, so it doesn’t count). I have contributed, at least in part, to his current wealth. I didn’t like Inferno, I’ve said so, and I was happy to let the matter lie, even after I coincidentally discovered a factual error.

But yesterday I typed “Dan Brown Inferno” into Quora.com, to see if people were discussing the novel, just out of curiosity, you know? There I came across one question which exposed a plot hole…make that the plot hole, a plot hole so big that I didn’t even spot it because the entire novel was inside it.

(At this point it would again be pertinent to issue a spoiler alert, but does it make any difference?) Continue reading “Some more Dan Brown…the last time…I promise” →

On my phones over the years – The Antiques

Writing about the demise of the Blackberry got me all nostalgic about the various phones I’ve had over the years. Let me share them with you.

My first cellular phone was a Nokia Brick. Okay, so its official model was the 2110 (though I instantly got a photo of one when I typed “Nokia Brick” into Google). I also had the extended battery which, as you can see, very nearly doubles its thickness (and which, at four days, lasted twice as long as the original battery (and four times as long as my current smartphone’s…go figure)). It not only had an external antenna, but you had to extend it to get decent signal most of the time. Click here to find out what else The Brick was capable of