Unquiet Desperation

C.A. Sizemore has been a fan of The Secret Lair since day one. He has provided us with feedback and even contributed a manuscript that we simply haven’t gotten around to publishing yet. C.A. has been with us since long before The Secret Lair became a reality: he followed us here from The House of [...]

Kris and I have taken the time to post out first bits of original fiction over at The Secret Lair:

In our first piece, The Monologue, Kris orates grandly before one of the many who have attempted to penetrate the Lair…and failed. Our second piece, entitled Serial, [...]

photo by J.R. BlackwellThis time, we sit down with Andrea Gideon to talk about settling down in your home town…the joys, the pains, the issues of dealing the past. Andrea’s in a unique position to know…she and her husband Tom bought the house where she grew up, and walk the same streets that she did [...]

 

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photo credit: OctopusHatI’m happy to say that the first Refresh Cleveland gathering was a success. We met up for dinner and beers at the Winking Lizard in Lakewood, and topics of conversation included:

We have a lot of talented folks in this town. Why are they not speaking to each [...]

We’re having a little Refresh gathering tonight at the Winking Lizard in Lakewood at 7:30pm. There’s no set topic, other than tech in Cleveland and how we can improve it. Come join us!

Winking Lizard 14018 Detroit Ave. Lakewood, OH 44107-4522 Phone: 216.226.6693

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photo credit: PrASanGaMKris Johnson and I have been meeting every morning at a local coffeeshop to get in an hour of writing every day before work. So far, so good…sort of. We’re both struggling with focus at the moment, and I’m starting to wonder if a café with free wifi was such a [...]

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photo credit: doyoukekkoIn the past few weeks, I’ve helped some of my friends move their WordPress blogs to new servers. One of them had a consistent problem with their host because WordPress was hogging cycles on the shared server. We implemented the WP-Cache plugin, and things got better in minutes.

Jeff [...]

A week ago, I asked for people to submit some topics that they’d like to hear me write about. Some of my comrades in the Cleveland Programming Wasteland chimed in, wanting to know how I wound up working for Mahalo.

In a word, podcasting.

No, really.

Desperation, Quiet to Unquiet

When the podcasting community started to form [...]

photo credit: MMMMichelleOn the second day of Penguicon, the furries came out. Luckily, they weren’t drawn to the technical track, so for the most part, we were safe.

Most of the morning, Rick and I hung out. There weren’t any sessions that we wanted to attend, so we headed out for a few hours [...]

photo credit: paulgormanThere may be no place quieter than a con on a Saturday morning.

Still, I’m up. And this is the Penguicon Update: Day 1.

The con itself is good size…it’s pretty much taken over the Troy Hilton, which is not a small hotel. Like all Sci-Fi/Tech conventions, the glasses to non-glasses ratio is pretty [...]