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NaNoWriMo 2006

Once again it’s National Novel Writing Month and another try to finish a 50K word novel by the end of November to win (the honor, no real prizes). Can I at least be brave in the attempt? Oh yes, and I’m trying the Snowflake Method. And if you use Second Life you can visit my […]

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See the Cat? See the Cradle? – Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

I tried to take a photo with my Canon PowerShot s500 camera and this was the result. A funhouse mirror image except it ain’t so fun. Looks to me like the CCD chip inside the camera is broken or has worked loose somehow. My apologies to the cat. Another shot, this time of something flat. […]

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It’s a Google World

Okay, Google has a search engine, Gmail, Google Talk, Google Earth, etc. But if you delve into Google Labs you’ll find that they now have spreadsheets , a word processor, a webpage design application, the list goes on and on. I would think that if I were someone like Microsoft, I wouldn’t be happy. There […]