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Monthly Archives: November 2009
Flashing Santa alert!
Remember when I reviewed Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs awhile back? Because of that review (I suspect) I received an email from his media team. The email told me about the author’s upcoming book, complete with a book trailer. … Continue reading
Contest alert: Do you want a Google Wave invite?
I reviewed Google Wave a few days ago, as some of you may remember. After five days away from Wave, I logged in and discovered that I had been invited to several Waves, including a NaNoWriMo wave for my region … Continue reading
The End (of my NaNo novels)
I hit the end of my second NaNoWriMo novel, Adventures in Wrimonia, today. It clocked in at 58,008 words, giving me 131,014 words total for the month of November. Apparently I’m still in denial, as the file for my novel … Continue reading
Review: Twitter's new retweet feature
The term feature is used loosely here. I was skeptical when Twitter announced a Project Retweet. Why fix what isn’t broken? Sure, I had to copy and paste what I wanted to retweet, but that was just a little annoying, … Continue reading
Thanksgiving Day
Happy Thanksgiving to my American readers. I hope today was a day of bonding with your loved ones over stuffing your faces and food comas. Happy very late Thanksgiving to the Canadian readers out there. Happy Thursday to everyone else. … Continue reading
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Review: Google Wave
I received a Google Wave invite a few days ago and decided to try it out. I watched the goofy video from Doctor Wave, which lagged to the point that five minutes later, I had watched one minute of video. … Continue reading
A makeshift bed
I returned to my parents’ house on a Thanksgiving visit today. My bed is gone, of course, as it’s in my current place of residence. My makeshift bed for the weekend is a folding bed that my grandfather gave me … Continue reading
Hey writers? Do you want a free shrimp dinner?
Unless you don’t like shrimp, in which you’re probably saying, “Eww, Sushi, why would I want one of those?” Fine, you can have a shrimp free dinner. But for the rest of us… The Helpful Orgs and Sites forum of … Continue reading
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Adventures in Wrimonia coming to a SWAT near you
Today I passed 100,000 words total for NaNoWriMo and learned that RoughDraft could count the total word count of all open documents, thus saving me the time of using the calculator to add the word count of the current novel … Continue reading
An update on the POP3 status and my alma mater's strange assumptions
A few days ago I discussed my alma mater’s strange views of their alumnae’s technical knowledge. As I enjoy doing when I am frustrated about something, I mentioned my malcontent on Twitter, making sure to mention my alma mater in … Continue reading