I should preface this by pointing out that I currently have a Samsung S8+ and am writing on a Microsoft Surface Pro. I am not an Apple fanboy. Although I might be soon as I wrote previously. The M1 chip is going to turn a lot of people into happy iSheep and I suspect I…
A friend of mine had been banging on about the Cobra Kai show for ages. He thought I would like it as a fellow mid-to-late 40s man who grew up watching the original Karate Kid. I had a gap in my schedule as I am self-employed and my schedule is full of gaps. So I…
The interweb has been going mental with Apple-related news. The new A14X processor will likely appear in the next MacBook Pro (and other devices to follow) along with the first of the much-hyped ’Apple Silicon’, the Arm chip made by Apple for Apple as it breaks away from Intel. There is also the imminent Big…
Since I bravely stepped out into writing purely freelance, and not ‘for the man’, I’ve been doing a few side hustle jobs on Fiverr and Medium. This is mostly because ‘the man’ fired me thanks to Covid but I was freelancing on the side anyway. Both are very different websites and do things in a…
The Amazon Print On Demand service always seemed pretty cool and something I wanted to try out on The Uneven Passage of Time. It is my most reviewed book so I thought it would be more likely that someone might buy it. (Please take a look, I spent spent $30 on the design and am…
Hard Landing is the first book in the Spider Shepherd series by British author Stephen Leather. I don’t really many thrillers but when I am in the mood for one, I want excitement, action, and really tough people beating the shit out of other really tough people. Hard Landing delivers and was way more enjoyable…
I have had a really bad series of book covers for quite a while now. In fact, the cover for my oldest collection of short stories – The Uneven Passage of Time – was something I designed on the original iPad. The first one (I still actually have it)! I thought it looked ok for…
For some reason, writing porn or ‘adult erotica’ has become a thing in my life recently. I should stress that I am an open-minded atheist and as long as all parties involved, fictional or real, are into it and are consenting adults, I don’t give a shit what people get up to. I am not…
Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout was one of August’s free games on the Playstation and it has become a mild addiction. I was going to go with ‘It’s a Knock Out’ (from the UK) or Total Wipeout (from US) instead of ‘Takeshi’s Castle‘ for the title but most younglings won’t know what I am talking about….
I replayed The Last of Us a few days ago and after a month of no games and concern I was going off the medium, I was suddenly back in love with it. And it was primarily down to one aspect. A quick recap of what happened and my days in gaming wilderness I went…
I had heard of Fiverr but assumed – and I think this is logical – that you only got paid a fiver. An American fiver too which is worse. I had signed up 4 years ago to see what the fuss was about, then made that logical jump and didn’t look at Fiverr again until…
Haunted Thailand: Ghosts and Spirits in the Land of Smiles is a look at what goes bump in the night in the otherwise sunny and cheerful Southeast Asian Kingdom of Thailand. Ranging from grotesque to seductive, disgusting to cute, malevolent to benevolent, in the ‘Land of Smiles’ ghosts and spirits are everywhere. Although predominantly Buddhist,…
I know it doesn’t exist yet but I want one. I am in the market for a new laptop and the not-yet-existing Surface 4 seems like just the ticket. I have the Microsoft Surface Pro from 2017 and it has been great. I saw the Surface Laptop 3 in a shop the other day and…
I am writing this in the Hilton in Hua Hin and thought I might as well write about it. I am not normally so rich and swanky but at the moment, no tourists are allowed into the country, they are doing up the lobby (until October 2020) and it is rainy season. Consequently, it is…
I got this James Bond book on my birthday, started it yesterday and finished it today. Forever and a Day by Anthony Horowitz is the perfect beach holiday read and I happen to be on a beach in Thailand right now. Because my life is exotic and exciting and just like Bond’s minus all the…
Last week, I started a grand experiment to see if I could use a 2015 iPad Pro, with completely up-to-date software, as my new laptop. Consequently, I used nothing else apart from the iPad Pro for everything I do. So: reading, writing, videos and drawing. I really wanted it to work so that I could…
Four years ago, in a simpler and happier time, I bought the first iPad Pro – not literally, obviously, or I would be richer – the first model. I had a Mac Air as well but it was four years old itself and so I thought perhaps the IPad Pro could replace the Mac Air….
A weird thing happened to me recently. I got bored playing a game on my Playstation. This happens occasionally but even so, I normally try and get an hour or two into a game at a minimum. That way I feel like I am giving it a chance and if I still don’t like it,…
For me, there are two sweet spots with technology and while both of them coincide with moments of financial horror, my love of gadgets can overcome that. Who cares if you have to eat nothing but pot noodles for 6 months when you have a shiny new toy? You can probably guess what these sweet…
Exciting news! Now that I have returned to writing freelance full time, I have a spanking new website – www.jasonwardwriter.com. Unlike this fantastic site, it is much more professional. I actually started this website, and www.scifiward.com, to blow off steam after a hard day’s freelancing. That is why it can be a barely disguised rant…