by Andrew Rondeau | Feb 5, 2015 | Writing Blog Posts
“Boredom is the conviction that you can’t change … the shriek of unused capacities.” – Saul Bellow When you were a kid, did your parents ever tell you off for complaining that you were bored? The standard view of boredom is that intelligent, active...
by Andrew Rondeau | Jan 5, 2015 | Writing Blog Posts
Sometimes, when you visit a favorite blogger online, you can read a post and get left with the distinct impression that the author has lost all passion for the subject, and has reached an impasse. This translates in to the material of the site, dragging the content...
by Andrew Rondeau | Dec 17, 2014 | Writing Blog Posts
We Humans are an impatient lot, aren’t we? With the rise of technology over the past few decades, we’ve come to expect results on most things much more quickly than previous generations. We want to see television on demand. We expect meals to be heated in...
by Andrew Rondeau | Jun 24, 2014 | Writing Blog Posts
Every now and then, I get asked advice about blog writing. The problem with coming up with tips for bloggers is that writing is a pretty subjective thing, and we all have different styles we like to write in. There’s no real hard and fast rule about what sort of...
by Andrew Rondeau | Aug 29, 2013 | Writing Blog Posts
Can you remember the first time you got an e-mail with an emoticon in it? All of a sudden, instead of writing coherent sentences and signing off with a ‘Yours sincerely’, people writing e-mails seemed to forget everything that they had ever learned in...
by Andrew Rondeau | Jul 9, 2013 | Writing Blog Posts
When Search Engine powerhouse Google releases a new update (i.e. Google Penguin), the IT world goes mad. The equivalent of celebrity spotting for Hollywood fans, Google’s releases spawn a whole host of conversations such as what name the update will have, what...