April 7th, 2009 · Archives
It’s a great time to be a writer; it is a terrible time. Great if one can nimbly navigate the terrain shared with the corporate publishing giants; terrible if you get trampled by one.
Both of these can happen to an author. The giant corps are tottering but they still have the eyes of the consumer [...]
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April 2nd, 2009 · Archives
It’s spring when all techie geeks think of new websites, so it’s time.
There’s to be a major upgrade to this blog and since the technicians only barely know what they’re doing, it might get ugly. Real ugly. Header under the left side-bar no pics ugly. I know because it just did that.
Update: New template has [...]
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I’ve been away, and it seems mighty odd to write it that way. Contractions didn’t exist in the 17th century, at least not the ones we are used to today; although shan’t t’was. I have found it is a challenge to write conforming prose that does not roll off the keyboard with square wheels.
I have—I’ve—been [...]
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August 25th, 2008 · Archives
In the Beginning, Man so angered the Lord he was cast from the Garden. In the midst of the Lord’s wrath an Angel came onto Him. The Angel asked permission to lead Mankind back again to Paradise, and wished to be given a shape to best serve Man in his exile.
This love stayed the Lord’s [...]
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August 10th, 2008 · Archives
Welcome to the new blog, with a new CMS platform and new dedicated site. (!)
The upgrade was made after it was revealed that readers would have no way to post comments, so a new council was convened at Micron Press headquarters and the result is this new Wordpress platform. It is state of the [...]
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July 21st, 2008 · Archives
An inability to type started this author on the road to writing. By mid-semester in high school typing class I was still too slow to appear on the progress chart, which began at at a ridiculously fast 40 words-per-minute. Happily, the teacher banished me to the school library instead of redoing the chart.
In the library [...]
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July 14th, 2008 · Archives
My blog is launched, but I had to put down the weeks of celebration that were just getting underway in order to attend to business. I was called into the august presence of my publisher, Micron Press, for a timely conference.
We find this blog is to be promoted from its obscure position within the Reviews [...]
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July 4th, 2008 · Archives
The website Technorati currently tracks over 112 million blogs (as of June 2008). This number does not include, among multitudes, the more than 72 million blogs counted by The China Internet Network Information Center. Clearly there is a need for another one.
Yet, even if I am not going where no one has gone before–boldly or [...]
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