I am surprised and pleased that so many of you have expressed you concern for my kitten Gracie. Erica went down to NJ to see her last night. Gracie is quiet and not so panicky. She was curled up – just like a cat – which means that she is making herself comfortable. The bone […]
Wanderings
Resources for Science Fiction: Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. – Ray Bradbury
Monthly Archives: September 2004
Smeerp Lite started
Thursday, September 23, 2004
I began work on Smeep Lite, a PHP slush management system that I will give away for free. I am trying to make it so you can just edit a config file, drop the php modules on your website and take off. No MySQL required and no programming. I have made it so an editor […]
Bad Weekend
Tuesday, September 21, 2004
It has been a very poor weekend for me. None of this is Spec-Fiction related so please move on if you are bored with my personal life. I let the cats out Sunday and one of them did not come back. I went out at 8PM to go to my usually Sunday night poker and […]
Writer’s Trunk
Friday, September 17, 2004
In a previous post, I wrote about the death of a microwave and the rediscovery of my “Treasure Chest”. I stopped writing when I got married in 1973 due to the pressures of finding a job. I stopped reading books then and didn’t start again until 25 years later when I finally learned to tune […]
StrangeTales.net back to static
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
The CMS system “postNuke” flunked my test. It turned out to be a real pain to modify and create new templates. I used a system called Mambo on my site WWW.GeoffHartwell.com. This is a band site for a local Blues guy. The problem with Mambo is that I can’t figure a way to expand it […]
Anonymous Site started
Friday, September 10, 2004
I’ve set up my website StrangeTales.net as a sort of zine/blog/portal using a “Content Management System” called postNuke. I don’t know what I will do with it yet. If it works out, I’ll continue the experiment at other sites. For now I am using it to publish my unpublishable stories. I have been trying to […]
Possible art work
Wednesday, September 8, 2004
I received an anonymous comment on the launch of the September issue of A-T and was referred to http://www.renderosity.com/. This a cool BBS where artists strut their stuff. I left a query asking for art of the December issue of A-T and I actually got a response: http://www.renderosity.com/gallery.ez?ByArtist=Yes&Artist=dante This guy has some very nice things […]
Ancestral Story
Tuesday, September 7, 2004
I was talking to mother yesterday and she had out the family geneologies. She told me this story that she found in one of the histories. One line of my ancestors is the Rogers Family. In the late 1600s one of the Rogers was a Sea Captain and then the owner of an import export […]