Author: Shoo Rayner

  • YouTube Tags – Where did they come from?

    YouTube is a fascinating way of not doing any work, especially if you are promoting videos rather than watching them. I find I’m getting a little obsessed with my statistics on ShooRaynerDrawing, where I give drawing lessons. It’s happened in the past with other sites. Back in the late nineties, when MP3 was just getting…

  • Silver Surfers

    I’ve spent the afternoon setting my mum up with her first laptop. She’s going to be Eighty Four tomorrow – a real silver surfer! She’s got a Facebook account, knows how to get to times online and has just about got the hang of point and click. I guess there’ll be a lot of handholding…

  • Word Of The Day – build your word power

    HYPERBOLE Pronounced High-per-boh-lee for some reason. Hyperbole is guff – stuff that advertising agents and politicians produce to dazzle us and make us think something is what it isn’t. The more current word, Hype, is a shortening of the word. A load of exaggeration that is not really meant to be taken literally, but often…