MMC is shutting it’s doors for the holiday period. Product support will continue but all other communications will go unanswered till the new year. Merry christmas to you and yours. We’ll see you again in January!

 
We are planning on launching a blog for the FortyChapters users in the new year. The blog will publish articles to do with writing, publishing and creativity in general. We, however, are pretty busy so we are looking for a full time writer.
The blog will need two posts per week of about 300 words each. [...]

In a recent post, Top Secret Project From MMC, I mentioned for the first time my latest idea. But like so many before, it has been scuppered on the rocks of reality. So I figured I should share the idea here rather than let it go completely to waste. 
Being a recent convert to the Church [...]

If you’re like me, you’ve probably heard the current web catchphrase “always be testing”, known what it meant but still not bothered. How wrong was I to ignore that advice?
Only yesterday I setup Google Optimizer on the FortyChapters website to test variations of the homepage design. I want to see if I can appeal not to people’s [...]

These certainly are exciting times. The pace of technology is keeping everyone on their toes. I am enjoying the ride as much as anyone else. I have a gPhone winging it’s way to me as I type. The newest smartphone on the market, developed by Google will bring with it a host of exciting changes [...]

It’s the same old story. Boy gets computer. Boy starts blog. Blog becomes chore. Boy plays with old tyre.
I have neglected this blog but that is only because of the following very understandable (I’m sure) reasons:
1) FortyChapters has been a big success (not Google big, more like a good novel that made it into Oprah’s [...]

A new computer superstore opening this week in Dublin and you couldn’t have take any form of public transport without seeing ads for it. One of the ads was promoting a netbook for only 200 Euro, which is a steal. 
A netbook is like a laptop but tends to be smaller, have less features and use [...]

The launch of FortyChapters couldn’t have gone better. For those that don’t know FortyChapters helps would-be authors write a book online.  It’s been a little less than two weeks and so far the uptake has been great. 
For such a niche service, people seem to be responding really well to the basic idea of drafting and [...]

Twitter continues to be a bigger and bigger part of my day (@mark2100) but it seems like I have found it just as it’s going the way most things online go, toward the spam. First there was newgroups, they were destroyed with spam. Then there was email, it two was virtually annihilated by spam. Then [...]

Hybrid cars seem to be everywhere I look lately - it could just be me though. I’ve always been fascinated by just how inefficient cars are, yet still so adored and so practically useful. And I’ve long thought about what possible way there might be to improve on the basic automobile idea.
I have no real [...]