Archive for October, 2004

2004-10-29 22:34:16

In Which NextBlogs Are CruisedSometimes, wandering through the Blogger ‘Next Blog’ links, you’ll find something interesting. For example: Brian Moffat.
One of the first entries I read was this one:
One morning six months ago I woke and on my shoulder found a previously undetected lump. It scared the life out of me. It was my head, [...]

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2004-10-29 21:57:36

In Which A Yogourt Is Consumed
I’ve started eating yogourt (yoghourt, yougurt, yogurt: nobody seemsto be able to decide on a spelling) in order to get some calcium. Iprobably shouldn’t have to worry about bone loss, being as 1. I’m maleand 2. I intermittently exercise by lifting heavy weights. However, Ieat a little dairy just in [...]

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Great Good News

In Which Someone Returns to Blogistan
Long-time readers (there are so very many) will be glad to know thatFrymaster has returned. Sidebar links will be updated (actually,INSERTed) later. For now, do the cut, shuffle and paste routine:http://frymaster.ca
Update!Frymaster added to the sidebar (I refuse to call it a Bl*gr*ll), along with Trillian.

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Blogthreats

In Which a Business Plan is ConsideredI’m thinking that we in the Blogosphere.. or perhaps it’s Blogistan?Yes, I like that better. We here in Blogistan are all frustratedwriters in search of an audience. We crave hits. We crave comments,feedback, validation. Month after month, we put out the profound, thestupid, the silly, the clever, the witty, [...]

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2004-10-26 04:02:18

In Which the Modern Novel is Mentioned
I now know two people who are entering NaNoWriMo. Well, ‘know’. Not really. I’ve linked them on the sidebar, which means that I regularly read what they write. So I know them in the same sense that one knows a newspaper columnist who writes frequently and talks about his [...]

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The most useless thing in the world

In Which An Idea Is Presented
Is there anything in the world more useless than a stapler that willonly staple one sheet of paper?

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Music and other things

In Which The Hatching of Plots Is Mentioned
For me, the actual process of writing consists of three distinct phases.
Idea generation: These come to me everywhere, from everywhere.I might see a person and that might spark something, or a place, or anobject. One idea came from a dilapidated dock that extended into theocean.
Sometimes ideas come from [...]

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2004-10-20 13:38:48

In Which I Do Some More CheapAss Photoblogging
Cheapass in the sense that this is an old image.
This is HouseApe 1.0 (it’s amazing: once you’ve written a million lines of code, CamelCase and UPPERCASE without CapsLock is dead easy) taken about two years ago. Actually, looking at the tag, two and half years ago. We had [...]

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Disaster

In Which Disaster Strikes
I’m someone who loves tools. I don’t mean that in the strictlytraditional sense, of screwdrivers and socket wrenches and needle-nosepliers, although I like those too, but in the sense that a ‘tool’ issomething one uses to complete a job.
I do pretty much all of my writing on an old IBM laptop, partlybecause [...]

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2004-10-18 09:06:40

In Which I Marvel At Something
I’m reading a technical document in which the words ’smiley face’appear as part of the specification.
If you had told me, ten years ago, that this would occur, I would havelaughed at you. Now, of course, I can only make a smiley face. A wryone.

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