Submissions Out, So Back to the Grind

It’s pathetic to admit it, but the real reason I finally got off my butt and sent subsmissions out was because we had a challenge set up among my classmates from my Clarion West class, that we would send at least six stories out within the first three months after the end of the workshop. I barely made the deadline, but actually, it’s a good thing I held off. I caught a couple of things, such as the fact that in the beginning of “Soul Competency”, my Second Coming With a Twist story, the guy teaching English to The Lord …

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Upgrading

As if I wasn’t busy enough already… I’m going to upgrade to the newest version of WordPress over the next couple of days, and see what happens. This might affect the layout a bit, but that’s fine — I’ve been thinking about migrating to a modified Hemingway layout anyway. Things might get funky around here for a little while.

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AllConsuming Down?

Anyone else out there having this problem? I searched the Web for complaints but couldn’t find any. When I try to load AllConsuming.net nothing comes up… which has significantly slowed the loading speed of my own site, since I had a couple of feeds from my consumption lists on display on my pages. Has anyone else noticed this, either on my own site, or in terms of the original AllConsuming site? If it goes on much longer, I’ll have to cut the AllConsuming feed and if it’s not fixed in a few days I may migrate out. (I was looking …

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timetravelershow.com » Show Notes for The Time Traveler Show #10 Asimov Speaks!

I’m up late recovering files from my memory card. Something bad happened with my camera, something I cannot explain except that it’s a known bug with my model of camera. (Argh.) Anyway, I’m trying to find a piece of software that will save the files for me, for free — not a demo, not a trial version, actually free — and it’s driving me mad. Anyway, while doing this, I ran across timetravelershow podcast episode containing a speech by Isaac Asimov. Now, I didn’t pay attention to the date it was delivered until I heard something worth adding to my …

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Now Using Flickr

I’m now using Flickr to host my photos, as you can see from the new photo-block and link in the sidebar. I have uploaded a bunch, and with my pro account, I’ll be able to upload a bunch more. All I need to do is get around to doing it. I have 2 gigs of bandwith allowed me per month, so I think most of my decent photos from the last few years should be uploaded by the time next semester starts. Note that there will be some pics — shots of my girlfriend, and others — that will be …

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