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I ditched Twitter
Sunday, February 21st, 2010
Tonight I went to maintain my Twitter account, and discovered that Twitter has ordered all the applications with a mass unfollow capability to disable it. That means I could spend hours unfollowing the people I’ve followed lately who didn’t follow me back — at two clicks and a pageload per person. That’s hours wasted doing something I should be able to do with a search and a couple of clicks total.
That’s many, many more useless mouse clicks than I should engage in, if I want to keep my carpal tunnel syndrome from flaring up.
So I’ve ditched Twitter.
It’s not my preferred method for social interaction — I prefer a medium with more room for nuanced remarks (which Twitter’s 140-characters-per-post precludes). I thought it might be good for word-of-mouth advertising of The Winds of Winter, however, so I was taking part in writers’ chats and carrying on other individual conversations. But this recent policy of Twitter’s means it’s just too darned much work for any possible return.
There are definitely people I’m going to miss. I probably won’t run into them much anywhere else, as I’m not much of a blog-commenter. I regret it.
Goodbye, Twitter.
I’ve got pneumonia
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
Things are moving slowly around here because I’ve got pneumonia, and I don’t have the spare energy to write elaborate posts. I’ll keep uploading new parts of Sigurd, however.
I’m making pretty decent progress on the poem, and on some projects unrelated to fiction-writing.
Microsoft’s Broken CSS
Saturday, December 26th, 2009
I uninstalled Internet Explorer 8, and I’ve just noticed that the journal pages don’t look right in IE 7. I’m too busy writing to feel like fixing it now.
In fact, I may be too tired of Microsoft’s weird inability to write browsers that handle normal CSS to fix it, period. The page looks fine in Firefox, Opera, Safari, and Chrome, and it was OK in IE8 when I had IE8 installed.
But I’ll have a look at it, sooner or later, just to make sure I didn’t do anything stupid with the journal CSS.
Downtime because of hack
Saturday, December 19th, 2009
I got on today to find out that the page was down because of a hacking attempt. Quick action by my hosting service, Inmotion Hosting (whom I recommend), prevented any serious damage. I’ve now restored my files from local backup and updated Wordpress, as well as receiving an update from Adobe. With any luck, this will take care of the problem.
It’s just started to snow. We’re going to have a blizzard, it seems. I hope everyone is having good holidays.
I’m back, sort of
Friday, November 27th, 2009
The last month has included multiple root canals and other major dental work to deal with infected teeth, influenza threatening to become bronchitis, and a sinus infection. Presently I’m dealing with the tag end of the flu, and the sinus infection.
I haven’t had the flu in any way worth mentioning since contracting the Hong Kong flu in 1968. With any luck, this bout will set me up with effective immunity for the next forty years.
My goal this weekend is to get back to working on The Winds of Winter, and to resume adding sections of Sigurd the Volsung.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
Computer Vacation
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
Hi, everyone. I haven’t abandoned the blog. I got the flu, and I’ve been taking a vacation from the computer for the first time in more than a decade. I’ll probably be back next week.
Baghdad Pups
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
The SPCA needs donations now to rescue dogs and cats U.S. soldiers have adopted in Iraq.
More and more troops are coming back, and they’re not allowed to bring the animals they’ve adopted on military transports. The SPCA needs help to fly the animals home so that our soldiers don’t have to face the stress of being forced to abandon their pets, as well as the stress of combat.
On another topic: I haven’t been updating the blog or the web page because I’ve had to have emergency dental surgery. I’ll be back to updating comparatively soon.
Links page update
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
Today I updated the Links page to include my how-to articles residing on other sites, and to add the rest of the Rules of Writing posts to the index.
I’m probably going to find a permanent place to put the #writechat blog directory soon, but I figure I’ll pick up more entries in chat this week, and for the time being it’s convenient to have it in a web post so people can request a listing by commenting. That may entail some reorganization of the pages, and I’m not sure what I’ll do yet.
Moving the Blog
Thursday, October 1st, 2009
For what it’s worth: I thought it might be difficult to reconfigure WordPress to run as your home page after you’ve already installed it in a subdirectory. It isn’t. It’s easy.
Updating blog directory links, which ought to be easy, is a pain.
Journal Move Complete
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
I’ve been realizing that my home page wasn’t accomplishing anything, and that I’d probably be better off with my blog as my home page. So I’ve moved it from the journal directory to the home directory.
I’ve updated everything on the site to reflect the change (to the best of my knowledge), and the menus should all work. I’ll update external links at directories as soon as possible.
Back to posts about writing tomorrow.
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