Opinion Worth

Okay, so you’re an aspiring author or a wannabe writer and you’re staring at the blank white page, wondering what to put on it. What would be the best thing to write about? What are publishers looking for? Hmm, tough question. I know, check out a few websites. Look at the home sites of well-known Traditional Publishers and see what they’re putting out at the moment. That’s easy. Here’s a few romantic novels, some spy stories, and a quirky new translation from the Spanish. Your head’s whirling, but you sleep on it and soon come up with an idea. You commit to paper, print out your creation and pop it in the post. Astonishingly, several months later, it comes back. Unwanted. Worse, there’s a little note stuffed inside the envelope. It reads, ‘This is not what we need at present’.
Read more… »

Comcast.net, owned by the Comcast Corporation which is the largest cable tv company and second largest internet service provider in the USA, was hacked for several hours last Wednesday, May 29. The hackers left a cryptic message on the site saying that they had “RoXed” Comcast. Spokeswoman of Comcast, Jennifer Khoury, stated late Thursday morning that the problem was solved but some Comcast users were still unable to access their accounts. Khoury explained that the hackers seem to have seized control of the http://Comcast.net domain name at registrar network solutions and had it redirected to other servers. Read more… »