News that Facebook today (18th May 2012) has gained a $104 billion flotation fills me with misgivings. Why? Let me digress a little...

It’s nice to be loved, even by a robot. Happy Birthday!

Or so nine emails sang to me this month. Somebody at Scribophile I’d never heard of  wanted to send me a token of his esteem. (Beware geeks bearing gifts.) From eight other writing sites came an effusion of bad rhymes.

Even my youngest daughter sent me one. “How did you know it was my birthday?” I a...
Continue reading ...