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Holiday Break

I’ve been a little lax in blogging this month — ok, to be honest, I’ve been very lax.  It’s Christmas time and that means doing a ton of family stuff and shopping for my daughter.
I’ll be posting a new Python project of mine in January, along with some updates on my writing and maybe an [...]

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Agent Roundup

This week, literary agent Nathan Bransford held a “opening paragraph” contest.  Unfortunately I couldn’t get involved in it, life has that annoying ability to get in the way, especially during the Christmas season.  I didn’t even notice that the finalists were listed on Thursday!
After a two-month hiatus, the Query Shark has returned with several new [...]

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Weekly Wrapup

The weekly roundup of web postings I’ve liked or videos I watched this week. The highlights only, of course, as I do a lot of surfing.

Have your book buying habits changed this year?
Books beginning with dialogue…does it work
Make custom signs (not real signs, but fake signs, like:)

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Generating Traffic

This review of Web Juggernaut showed up when I was searching around for ways to get visitors to this blog. I’m not trying to do the whole “niche blogging” thing to make money or anything, I just want to get my ideas on software and writing shared with other people.
Which, of course, requires visitors. [...]

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Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Stop sending mail you later regret

It’s late night on a Friday, you’ve just come back from a party, and you get the brilliant idea to send an email to an ex. Never fear, Google’s Mail Goggles are here.
It’s an add-on that asks math questions to verify your sobriety during designated hours. If you answer the questions correctly, the [...]

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