Displacement

[desperance]

If cat- or other hoovering is what occurs when one is displacing work, what does one call those distractions that tumble into play when one is displacing the hoovering?

'Specially when they're work-related?

I pause in my endeavours, simply to point out:

(a) that I have been interviewed for the little magazine "Visionary Tongue", which is now out, contact visionarytongue@hotmail.co.uk (there is a website - www.visionarytongue.co.uk - but for some reason I can't get past the first page); and that my interview therein sits back to back with a story by m'friend'n'publisher Ian Whates, which is convenient, because it acts as a prompt for

(b) which is the most oblique plug you may yet have seen for a book, because I don't want to pre-empt any public announcement, but I do feel entitled to murmur that two stories from Ian's "DisLOCATIONS" anthology have been selected for a major year's-best antho. Which for a slim volume from a tiny publisher in a very competitive global market is damned impressive. (In the interests of clarity and ego-unboo, I should point out that my own Terminal is not one of them; but it's still not too late to nominate it for a BSFA award! Act now!!)

Oh, and

(c) the third "Phantoms at the Phil" volume of ghost stories - two each by Sean O'Brien, Gail-Nina Andersen and me - is now available for sale, for a mere ten quid. Beautiful hardback volume, bargain of the century. Buy now. While I hoover. I need some reward, damn it...

Comments

Re: Visionary Tongue Website - Annoyances Updated!

[durham-rambler.livejournal.com]

One of the many faults of Internet Explorer is in the way it handles alt text. The W3C standard states that this is an alternative to be displayed if the image is not available. Standards compliant browsers (which is what desperance, shewhomust and I have along with everybody who uses Firefox, Safari, etc) do not display this if you hover over an image, but Internet Explorer does. There is an alternative, title, which you might want to think about using as it does display a message on hovering.