Salon 31 (Between Junkets)
5 August, 2013
Morning word lovers, puzzle nuts & general verbal rubble. Oh what fun your blogmeister had in Byron Bay last week, spreading the word at the Writers' Festival. If you feel like a shot of warmer weather, a swim, good music and some fascinating sessions – keep your calendar free for early August.
I caught Kerry O'Brien quizzing Maxine McKew about her Bennelong experiment. Simon Crean on the spill. Peter Carey on the oeuvre. Archie Roach and Paul Kelly harmonise. Robert Drewe discuss atomic megatons. Heard surf writers, kids writers, memoirists, poets, critics, and met a riot of wonderful people in a cultural jamboree. Best fest in the West – or Far East anyway.
Came home to a uteload of emails including a query from Naomi about accessing crosswords on the digital platform. I’m still a pen & paper sucker, but can anyone share some light about the best methods (or tips) to solve online? According to Naomi, “The only way is on the ipad and accessed via the ‘newsstand’ icon for active digital subscribers. So there was much excitement last week! Unfortunately no such joy for my Samsung Note…not yet anyway…”
Is this the only way? The best way? Be good to get your tips on the meeting place of clues and cursors.
Later this week is a media conference in Sydney, learning more about this morphing technology, and how journalism, and cruciverbalism, can navigate the gnarls, as well as make the most of the expanding platforms.
To finish, here’s a brilliant code-pushing clue from a recent Paul: Cuckoo clocks, chocolates, snow, Alps and Heidi ultimately this?
Share other clues and crossword coups through the week.
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