For any website, one of the most important – and by extension the most difficult – aspect is encouraging people to visit and spend time looking at what the site in question has to offer. I had owned a number of websites previously and had always fallen short when it came to advertising…so this time [...]

Recently, I’ve started to feel like I am stuck in a Reading Rut. Since finishing my degree, I’ve really enjoyed reading for pleasure and not feeling obliged to plough through things I find boring. This has been a bit of a double-edged sword though, because now I don’t have to read anything my taste has [...]

Over the course of my University career, (which is continuing into an MA as of October…I obviously don’t know when to quit), critical analysis has been the key to getting a high grade. When reading something – whether a piece of fiction or not – we students are always encouraged to look at the text [...]

In the mid-1960s, Gene Roddenberry imagined a television series set in the future. He originally wanted to call it ‘Wagon Train to the Stars,’ but it eventually made it to television with the title ‘Star Trek.’ ‘Star Trek’ was not just a B-grade science fiction series. I won’t guild the lily: it had a small [...]

You know that game where the floor is lava and you have to get from one side of a room from another with the use of stepping stones? Well, that’s what I found my two young cousins doing not long ago. Reliving such a staple of childhood playtime I almost joined in, until I saw [...]