Monthly Archives: February 2009

We offered, you refused

Posted on February 19, 2009 by Jeff

Dear Repub­li­cans and/​or con­ser­v­a­tives, I don’t know how to break this to you, since you obvi­ously haven’t fig­ured it out your­selves yet, but it’s start­ing to become a prob­lem. So here it goes. You lost. Last Novem­ber, the Amer­i­can peo­ple took a good … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Interludes in reality

Posted on February 15, 2009 by Jeff

I know one of the biggest mis­takes in blog­ging is to blog about why you’re not blog­ging (META ALERT) but as you’ll see below, avoid­ing mis­takes doesn’t seem to be one of my tal­ents. So I thought I’d let my read­ers … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Mainstream media admits ebooks to become, uh, mainstream

Posted on February 8, 2009 by Jeff

It’s get­ting really hard to deny my Cas­san­dra Com­plex. This sounds an awful lot like what I wrote back in 2000 (yes, nine gor­ram years ago): Peo­ple are already cir­cum­vent­ing all this by self-​publishing. The self-​publishing indus­try is the only area … Con­tinue read­ing →

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The paradox of thrift

Posted on February 8, 2009 by Jeff

Really good arti­cle explain­ing how reces­sions work and why tax cuts and “let­ting peo­ple keep more of their own money” may sound nice, but doesn’t actu­ally help any­thing. Now we’ve entered “para­dox of thrift” ter­ri­tory. Peo­ple are sav­ing more. And … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Second time around

Posted on February 3, 2009 by Jeff

Now that I’ve started rewrites on my NaNoW­riMo ’06 project, I thought this might be a good time to describe my approach to fic­tion. This is by no means the only way or even the “right” way to write fic­tion, it’s just … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Searching for the perfect cloud

Posted on February 3, 2009 by Jeff

I’m still hav­ing trou­ble find­ing an ideal cloud com­put­ing solu­tion. I haven’t writ­ten much recently because Google Docs is just enough of a pain in the ass to get to that I don’t bother with it. Turns out I have to be able to … Con­tinue read­ing →

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