WritingScheduler widget version 0.2. The old version was 0.1; this is an incremental release. Basically what the widget does is track (in my case) word counts towards a goal. For example, I had a personal writing goal of 50,000 words in 31 days. The widget takes your data (50k words, the goal end date and [...]
I bet you were thinking of the short story by Shirley Jackson, but no — this is something far more important and topical. Last Wednesday’s Powerball was won with one ticket; no sharing that $340 million dollar jackpot with anyone else in the other 26 states that participate in the drawing. I guess it made [...]
Yeah, I haven’t been keeping y’all up to date with my writing. I’ve been blowing it off for a couple weeks because of all the NaNoWriMo stuff. I’ve also been distracted planning a European trip. Aside note: If you have opinions on some great cities/spots to visit in Europe (everything west of Russia is fair [...]
The cast of Batman Begins reads like a “Who’s Who” of great actors that never quite became megastars. Christian Bale did an excellent job as the emaciated lead in The Machinist, and he puts in a great performance as Bruce Wayne in Batman Begins as well, although The Machinist is truly a film where Batman [...]
The NaNoWriMo site is operational again, and is accepting signups for the 2005 writing challenge. I signed up as “Supergeek.” I’ve been chatting on the official unofficial chat channel as well. #nanowrimo on the irc.goodchatting.com server. Check it out. I think there’s a link to a Java IRC client if you have no clue what [...]
Apparently Nanowrimo is having problems with popularity. Registrations are currently not open, but that should change within the next day or so. First they say “Registrations will be open Oct 1!” then they say “Registrations open Monday!” then they say “Our server blew up and DNS is frigged as well, come back tomorrow! Or maybe [...]