By definition. The tests are designed so the average score is 100. Sixty-eight percent of the people taking the test fall into the range of plus or minus 15% of the mean, or between 85 and 115. So I have to assume there is a significant skew downward to results lately because a large percentage …
Now if I’m totally honest, when my employer told us all to go home last March (2020, of course), I didn’t mind one bit. We are a bit of an insular family, anyway. I got rid of my hour long commute, could barbecue some snags at lunch and got an extra hour sleep at night. …
This isn’t an advertisement for Netgalley, but it sure is going to sound like one. I have a publisher’s account at Netgalley. I give them a fair bit of money, and they present my book for review by readers, booksellers, libraries, and the like. You can join for free, as a reader, if you’d like. …
Nick Harding is an idealistic Private Investigator, trying to eke out a living after a spectacularly boring career in Financial Crimes with the Australian Federal Police. The very recent widow of the billionaire founder of Dvorak Kars — Australia’s first and only EV manufacturer — hires him to root out the fraud costing what is …
I bang on this a lot, and if the truth be told, this is only a minor component of a good story, but one most often missing. Stories have a structure. Generally, three acts. There are other structures, but they all resolve, in one way or another, to three acts. There are certain things a …
Apparently there’s a WordPress Plug-in exploit that allows nefarious bastards to gain access to my site and change shit. Posts prior to a couple of posts ago have been disappeared. With prejudice. Fortunately, the way-back machine has archives of some of those posts, so over the next few weeks, or months, I’ll reinstate them. Stay …
I got my first jab last week. There has been a lot of hesitancy about the AstraZeneca vaccine, and the EXTREMELY SLIGHT risk of blood clots. So I took it upon myself to track the side effects I experience. For the general public’s awareness, you understand. I received my first AZ jab the morning of …
Just leaving this here for now… Coming in September. Sometime… Nick Harding is an idealistic Private Investigator, trying to eke out a living after a spectacularly boring career in the Financial Crimes Division of the Australian Federal Police. The very recent widow of the billionaire founder of Dvorak Kars — the first and only manufacturer …