So, running Linux, I couldn’t find a proper market/submissions tracker, which is a bad thing because, really, I’d much rather be using a sensibly organized database program to be tracking my submissions than, say, a klunky Excel file or a notebook. What I found was the creation of Clarion 2004 graduate Charles Schoenfeld, The Writer’s Database: Market and Submission Tracker. I was a little dismayed to find out that the database didn’t allow users to share market information, since after all, it feels silly to have to type in market info that others have already plugged into the system, so …
Month: September 2006
I was gonna do some writing…
But my hard drive filled up. It filled up to the point my word processor was crashing, but of course I didn’t know that was what happened, so I logged out, rebooted, and then, after the reboot, it wouldn’t let me log in. The hard drive was so damned full that I couldn’t even log in, there was no room for the logs to run and log my logging in. And I don’t know the command line in Linux quite well enough to deal with that unaided. Happily, I had Lime’s old laptop here, and I connected to the net …
Gandhi and Osama
Ritu recently posted the following random factoid: September 11 this year will mark the 100th anniversary of Gandhi’s launch of Satyagraha in South Africa. As the commenters note, unfortunately bad actions get remembered more than good ones. It’s strange that that particular date ended up being big days for two strongly religious people, especially the difference between their mothods and attitudes towards violence.
Show Me The Benefits
Adam’s posted something (and something else) that fits well with the observations of John Ralston Saul regarding the relationship between free trade and wealth: it’s not just Canadians that are worse off, it’s everyone. CNN reported: Between 1995 and 2005, productivity — a measure of the quantity and quality of what workers produce per hour — grew 33.4 percent. But hourly wages rose only 11 percent, with almost all of that increase coming during the late 1990s, according to EPI. Looking back even farther, the disparity is greater. Since 1979, productivity rose 67 percent, while wages rose only 8.9 percent. …
Charlie & Claire Wedding Photos
Some photos (by the best man) from the wedding I attended in Australia may be seen here. I’ll be uploading whatever turned out of my own pics to Flickr sometime soon.