damn newfangled technology!

After a couple weeks of technical problems that kept me offline, including a dead hard drive, several viruses acquired while downloading an anti-virus, and getting stranded when my car broke down at work, the universe is permitting me to touch machines again.
That, or it’s lulling me into a false sense of security and explosions will [...]

This may be the ideal program for those who make their notes on the backs of gas-station receipts, along with pages of timeline sketches, alternate outlines, and checklists for each scene. As the name suggests, it works as a virtual binder for your novel. It’s great for storing random snippets of text, images, and even sound files, along with your novel itself — several alternate drafts of your novel, if you like.

This is the first post of what will probably be a long series of reviews of various writing software you can download. I thought I’d start off with one of my favorites: Rough Draft.
Cost: Free!
Ease of Use: Easy. If you can use Notepad, you can use this.
Use For: It’s primarily a simple word processor, but [...]

So, it looks like my spam filter was eating legitimate comments. Sorry! And here I thought it was just that nobody liked me. I adjusted it, but I’ll be checking its store of “spam” more often, just in case. I think all the comments it ate in the past month are now visible.
Huge thanks to [...]

I’m enabling a plugin called Listen Button on my blog. Just click it to hear the entry read by the synthetic voice at Odiogo. I have to admit, it’s pretty cool listening to someone else reading your writing out loud, even if it’s just a computer.
Unfortunately, I don’t know of a way to do it [...]

My normally slow dialup connection is even worse than usual, making anything net-related take at least three times what it should. So no new photos today. However, I have put together a MySpace profile, mostly to see what all the fuss was about. I still don’t get it. It doesn’t seem much different from LiveJournal, [...]

I’ve been hopelessly boring lately, but I’m trying to update my web stuff more regularly, so I’m faced with a lack of things to say. There has been very little progress on the writing front, none at all on the job-search front. I’m losing momentum on all the things I wanted to do this [...]