Unquiet Desperation

Testing from Jott. This is a test ____ cell phone directly to my blog. I read about this on Lifehacker. Interesting to see if it works. I am not going to ____. I just want to see how it comes through. This is a test. Go back to [...]

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 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 [...]

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: 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 [...]

Authors are now publishing their own books without a publisher. And some artists are releasing free audiobooks online, making money just like Radiohead or shareware software authors: via that old standby, The Tip Jar. You, the consumer, pay what you think is fair. The artist keeps every cent (or the vast majority of it) without [...]

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It seems to me that the greatest risk facing creative, driven people today is not obscurity. It’s burnout.

I read this in a blog entry today:

“Let’s be honest, when was the last time you felt as though you had enough time to do the things you wanted [...]

I totally blame Matt Selznick and P.G. Holyfield for this:

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Yesterday, Jason Calacanis1, posted about how to save money running a startup. Techcrunch took one part of Jason’s post and it and blew it way out of proportion, and Jason wrote a second post to continue the conversation. I weighed in on Jason’s blog about this, but I wanted to elaborate a [...]

Pics of my front and back yard during this morning’s snowstorm:

Note the snowdrift on TOP of the hedges in the second pic. Fun fun.

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