Mike Gunderloy (Larkware) has a good series of articles giving advice for writers. So far there are three installments: Part 1: Writing Articles Part 2: Structuring Articles Part 3: Book Contracts Mike's site is a good resource for Windows development and network information. I subscribe to his full-text RSS feed to keep up-to-date. Update 2003-09-01: Two more parts have been... (more)
August 2003 Archives
Today the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) released the final report on the cause of the Shuttle accident on 2003-02-01. The press release says in part: The CAIB report concludes that while NASA's present Space Shuttle is not inherently unsafe, a number of mechanical fixes are required to make the Shuttle safer in the short term. The report also concludes... (more)
Returning to the office today after vacation, I was greeted by the complete erasure of my browser bookmarks. I've been using SyncIT which was a handy way to synchronize bookmarks between different computers. Early on I also used it with Netscape, but it couldn't keep track of different profiles and kept merging everything (my wife's plus my own at home).... (more)
FogCreek Software just released CityDesk version 2.0. As I've mentioned here previously, I used the beta and first release of CityDesk for a couple of sites, including this one. I eventually moved to MovableType, but still use CityDesk for one site. It's a nice client-side solution that doesn't require any special server software (just an FTP publish location).... (more)
As a beta-tester for the new TypePad web publishing service, I'm going to test out their ability to manage photo albums. This might be a good way to post samples from our upcoming vacation. To start with, I posted some pictures from our July 4th trip to the mountains. So far it looks like a pretty easy service. I like... (more)
Today I caught a couple of good links for people new to weblogging (or "blogs"): Newbie FAQ 101 - How to make a blog What's a Blog?... (more)
NASCAR race coverage is pretty thin on my usual sports stops (Yahoo and ESPN). Even Nascar.com is pretty light on content. Oftentimes all three sites run the same AP story with the results of a race. In search of more news sources, I ran across a few good ones: RacingOne.com That's Racin' The Charlotte Observer -- some overlap with That's... (more)
As an experiment, I signed up for Google Adsense. The most popular section of my website is my list of PDA friendly web site, so I thought I'd see what kind of ads Google would want to display. So far, everything is related to Palm PDAs, especially "shopping" links. There isn't too much traffic on this site, but it'll be... (more)
We're getting all set for the Big Vacation of the summer. Starting next week, we're off for: 4 days at Anaheim (Disneyland of course) 5 days in San Diego (Zoo, Wild Animal Park, Sea World, Legoland) 2 days in Santa Barbara (parent recovery time) With some luck I'm going to try to post some pictures while we're traveling for the... (more)
