Monthly Archives: January 2011

Kindle-this now has a shortcode

A user can now send any page or post to a kindle when you place the short code -kindlethis- on a page. Below is the form. If you have a kindle you can try it out. If you don’t have a kindle you can get the PC program that lets you you read kindle books […]

Marketing my Book

My book on amazon was more of an experiment than anything else. I made the mistake of showing some friends and they all want a (free) signed copy. I ordered 10 from CreateSpace and they cost me $3.70 each with the shipping. I guess that’s not bad. I gave a copy to my Mom, and […]

Snow

We had 8 to 10 inches and in some places it seems a little deeper. It is a light fluffy snow, easy to shovel. It is 10:40AM and I’ve finished all the walks, cleaned off the trucks and I have cleared the pile the blow puts at the front of the driveway. I have to […]

How’s that working for you?

The phrase “How’s that working for you?” has become a sarcastic, obnoxious response to any attempt of a difficult task or policy, at least in politics. My difficult task was to submit stories only to “PRO” markets. These markets get thousands of submissions a month and it is nearly impossible to crack. How’s it working […]

Akin’s Laws of Spacecraft Design

Good stuff here, most of it applies to any process, including programming, management, or deciding which brand of toothpaste to buy. 7. At the start of any design effort, the person who most wants to be team leader is least likely to be capable of it. 20. A bad design with a good presentation is […]

RAH quote

“When a man makes up his mind without evidence, no evidence disproving his opinion will change his mind.” Robert A. Heinlein, from a letter.

Critters Writers Workshop Back

For the last week or so Critters has been down. I was surprised to see that Andrew Burt, who runs Critters, runs the site on on his own servers. I run about 50 websites (some only one page, some 200,000 pages), but I use shared hosting. I spend less than $15 a month on hosting, […]

The beach glass machine

Sea Glass is not as easy to find as it once was. There was a time when a bunch of high school kids could get drunk and toss the beer bottles in the surf and a few weeks later there would be beach glass. Now cheap beer is more likely to be in cans and […]