| When I was a kid my family owned an Atari 400 computer with 16K of RAM, which we later upgraded (when I was 8) to an …
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| The other day I stumbled into a new favorite Webcomic, The Order of the Stick. It's about a band of adventurers who are …
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| A little while back I posted about the upcoming client-side icons feature. That has been temporarily shelved, but not …
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| Some time ago I bought some new headphones because the ones I've had and loved for ages (Labtec) have a problem: the …
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| You may be wondering what is going on with BYOND 4.0 these days. There's actually a fair flurry of activity right now, …
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| I have a new favorite Webcomic: xkcd. It's got a lot of geek humor, including plenty of math jokes, but it's …
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| While on a jaunt through Wikipedia the other day I decided to check out their article on Calvin and Hobbes. It turned …
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| Well, my first publication project is finally ready for release. I am pleased to announce, at last, that my first book …
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| Christina Aguilera looks like she's going for the Gwen Stefani look, which is kind of dumb considering she had such a …
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| Now I have a new Firefox problem. I've been looking into putting RSS to work for me, and I discovered Firefox's great …
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| I recently updated FireFox from version 1.5 to 2.0. There are some things I'm not happy about. One of them is that a …
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| To the CBS Program Director and staff: I remain a loyal fan of The Amazing Race. That loyalty is increased by the tenth …
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| Overzealous firewalls are sending out bogus warnings about worm infection again. I thought we were past this once the …
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| On two different shows now I've heard a fantastically awful song. The song is "Hide and Seek" by Imogen Heap, I found …
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| I read today in yesterday's paper, because some jerk stole it from the break room during lunch yesterday, that a local …
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| I like to watch HGTV. But I'd like to know why the show Bad, Bad Bath is now called Save My Bath, because frankly the …
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| Headline on AOL news: Fill 'Er Up ... With Hydrogen? Fuel for This New BMW Must Be Kept At 480 F Below Zero: Is It …
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| I don't usually go in for horror, but recently I was checking out a link Gughunter posted and discovered …
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| I decided to add an excerpts page to the front of the story collection I'm working on, and since there are several …
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| For some reason I was musing on the scariest and most interesting episode of The Smurfs I ever saw, The Purple Smurfs …
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| I hereby declare that it is impossible to start and finish a game in one day. The theme for this challenge was …
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| Looking to improve on the starfield on my back cover, I went in search of new methods. The Starfield1 texture found in …
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| Lately I've been rendering covers to a book I plan to publish, a collection of short stories. What you see here are …
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| As you may recall, a while ago I was working on a program to combine partial files, so I could salvage downloads that …
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| I just had a thought about Archimedes' death ray. This has been debunked twice on Mythbusters, but both times they …
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| After much work, PilerTiler is now available again for download. This time the utility is not generic; it's only made …
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| After trying to get this project to work in DM, I finally abandoned the idea and put my full effort into recreating …
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| As some people may know, my first introduction to the BYOND community was when I posted on a thread where someone …
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| The other day I finished EI. So far this gives me a total of seven publishable stories including one novella, which I …
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| On Sunday I was inspired to begin yet another new story, which makes about four or five that I have half-finished, but …
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| I've been studying typography a bit in the hopes of eventually publishing something on lulu.com. One of the nagging …
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| I finally caved and built a random circuit generator so I could have the new background I wanted. I may decide to …
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| I have about three or four partial stories in the works without much of a middle or end in sight, though one might be …
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| I'm trying to get a file to print from Word to PDFCreator, but the resulting PDF file has a size of 8.5"x11" no matter …
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| My file splicing project has led me to investigate topological sorting, a kind of partial sort that doesn't require you …
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| Another project I've been working on is a file utility. Some time ago I was frustrated with files I was downloading …
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| I'm finally starting to get a handle on how I want to actually design the interface elements of Colony, an important …
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| It hasn't been announced anywhere, but my newest Dream Tutor column, Do You Hear What I Hear?, is up at BYONDscape …
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| Even good writers are hampered by mistakes in usage that stem from trying to put words they've heard in speech into …
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| I've had an idea for a story brewing for a while now, a concept that probably defies some laws of mathematics but is …
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| On another roam through the pages of Wikipedia, I stumbled across a page for artificial creativity. The concept is …
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| I'm back early from my vacation, with ideas buzzing in my head. I'm trying to figure out a direction for my next story, …
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| After spending most of the month writing in my spare time, I've finally finished my novella. My goal was to finish it …
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| On a sojourn to spacedaily.com, I discovered an interesting article suggesting that our universe's physical laws may be …
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| When I was in elementary school, one Halloween we watched a succession of film strips culled from the horror genre. I …
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| I seem to be on a writing jag lately. After finishing Gray Area (pending revisions of course), I moved on to another …
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Nov 16 2011, 4:02 pm