What I Think of My Kindle After 6 Months
I’ve written before about my Kindle, and how much I’ve used it (I read 3 books in the first week). Now that I’ve had it for 6 months, my passion has cooled. I still enjoy my Kindle, and I’m glad I bought it. I like being able to read the WSJ any time I want […]
I Love W.H. Auden’s Poetry
Been reading some W.H. Auden lately. Breathtaking. I don’t read enough poetry. September 1, 1939 by W.H.Auden I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth, […]
Freelancing Ain’t As Easy As I’d Hoped
I’m 5 months into freelancing. Hasn’t gone as well as I’d hoped. I’m currently making $0. I’ve made a fair bit from a good friend, for whom I developed his corporate website. I’ve also done a little tutoring. But that’s dried up. I advertise my web development tutoring, through CraigsList, but despite a few emails from interested locals, nobody’s come through. I’ve submitted short stories […]
Mac Viruses Are Out To Get You!
I haven’t consider viruses a significant threat on Mac OS X. While vulnerabilities exist, they’re so rare I figure don’t have to worry. Yet. Then I read that Louis Gray, a well-respected blogger, got a Mac OS X trojan. It hijacked his computer’s DNS settings, replacing the banner ads appearing on his webpages with ads […]
614 Words of a Rough Draft of the First Giant Armors Novel
“We’ve had a stroke of luck,” Toreas said. “Someone reported some suspicious activity near Roc Sarat, a ruined fortress not that far from here. Turns out, a lot of carts have been going in and out, some containing weapons. We think this is a major storehouse for the rebels. You all will attack it today. […]
The Amazing Tekkon Kinkreet
I just watched the anime film Tekkon Kinkreet. I’m not going to review it. Instead, I’m going to talk about its history. It was originally a somewhat sketchy manga, picked up by an expatriate American freshly dropped in Japan ten years ago. It hit him. Hard. Right between the eyes. He’d just closed down his […]
Blab To Everyone, All At Once
I realize this blog’s turned into Tech and Emotion Central of late, but that’s all I’ve felt like writing about lately. Today’s subject: Ping.fm, an aggregator site for all you social networkers out there. Basically, you sign up with Ping.fm, and you enter your username and password for all the newest Web 2.0 sites: Blogger, […]
What Is Wow?
Am I capable of “Wow”? Can I conceive of a breathtaking project, and then see it through? This is important. I can think of “Wow!” projects, sure…creating an animation from scratch, writing a series of kids’ books, building a robot…but can I think of projects and see them through? What projects can I see through […]
Yahoo! Buzz Is Not Buzz-Worthy
You may have heard of Digg, a site where users submit stories and rate them, and the highest-rated stories hit the front page. (Slashdot and Fark are similar.) Yahoo! now has its own version, called Yahoo! Buzz. It has a few problems. For one, the titles are short, as are the descriptions. Most titles are […]
Send an Email to Create a Blog…Wow!
Want a blog, but don’t want to spend time building a blog? Do you have an email address? Then you’ve got a blog, thanks to Posterous. Just send an email, containing whatever you want on your blog, to post@posterous.com. They’ll automatically create a blog, and reply with your new blog’s address. Then just continue emailing […]