It seems that not a week goes by without some news story relating to the world of social networking. Whether it be Friends Reunited, MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, LinkedIn or one of many other sites. Usually the news is something to do with internet predators grooming innocent children. And there have been enough news stories about how bands like the Arctic Monkeys made it through the internet. Or those stories about how Sandi Thom became successful by gathering a following on her MySpace page and then performing gigs in her Tooting basement because she couldn’t be bothered to tour. Read more
My dad passed away on April 1st 2005. At the time he had been working on a book, aimed at introducing the Java programming language as part of a university course. The project had taken a long time and was never quite finished, but near the beginning of 2005, he has finished his last chapter. Having dug around on his iBook, I found the most recent Word document in which he had been preparing the book. Reading it through, it was obvious that it would need a good bit of work before it could be publishable. Read more