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I made a resolution to myself years ago that I would make a serious effort to pursue and improve my writing. I’ve always been interested in writing stories and telling tales–hey, maybe I’ll even write a novel one day–but somehow job, career, and family always seemed to take a higher priority. And so no progress was made toward my goal. There wasn’t enough time left over at the end of the day to . . . → Read More: Resolutions, Goals, and Improving Your Craft 
I was on a long flight from Los Angeles to Richmond, Virginia, and I thought I was going to go insane. It wasn’t because of the long flight itself, nor was it because of the hassles of air travel. No, I was going out of my mind because two passengers behind me were prattling on about some reality TV show and I couldn’t escape. It’s not like they were discussing an interesting show . . . → Read More: Read more and save your sanity with Audible 
In time for the weekend, and to get a jump on the Halloween festivities in October, here are five quick links. Included here are photos from a zombie walk, a recipe for a cappuccino fudge cheesecake, financial advice, one way to get onto Jeopardy, and how to peel a whole head of garlic in less than 10 seconds. Go! Zombie Walk: Blood, brains, and boobs:Not sure where this was, or when this happened, but . . . → Read More: 5 quick links for 30 September 2011 
I’ve been using my Kindle for quite a while now and it continues to impress me with the ease and convenience it allows me to find new books and start reading them. For example, in an earlier post I mentioned how to find free ebooks on your Kindle. Just yesterday there were three older books I needed to find for something I’m working on and so I marched off to my library to try . . . → Read More: Free books on the Kindle 
If you have a Kindle (here’s a review of the graphite Kindle 3), or even if you don’t have a Kindle but have one of the free Kindle reading apps for your PC, Mac, BlackBerry, iPad/iPhone, Android, or Windows Phone 7 device, you may be interested in locating free books to read. Of course Amazon sells a large selection of ebooks, and you can also gift ebooks to other people or even give someone . . . → Read More: Free ebooks for your Kindle 
Here are just a few tips on how I set up an Instapaper newsfeed to download to my Kindle. There are a lot of customizations you can make, but the steps below should get you pointed in the right direction. But first, what is Instapaper? Instapaper is a service used to save for later web pages we find interesting in our browsing throughout the day that we don’t have time to read at the . . . → Read More: How to set up an Instapaper newsfeed on your Kindle 
So here’s a quick test to see how easy it is to blog using the iPad. As an example, this blog post was written using the iPad and the WordPress app for the iPad. The WordPress app allows for basic text entry, the addition of images, templates for posts and pages, and previews. One thing I am noticing is that, since my site theme is custom, the preview only displays the basic post text and . . . → Read More: Blogging using the iPad 
Amazon has just released a new software update for your Kindle reader that brings a lot of great new features to the platform. New features in the version 2.5 software update include: collections: the ability to create folders for organizing your books and audio files PDF pan and zoom: ability to zoom into PDFs and move the viewing window around password protection: allows you to password protect your Kindle better fonts: the fonts are now . . . → Read More: Version 2.5 Software Update for Amazon Kindle reader 
Some of you may remember the infamous Cone of Silence from the Get Smart comedy series made in the 1960s. In the show, the cone of silence was meant to provide a, well, cone of silence around two people who wanted to have a private conversation, like when discussing top secret information, so that no one outside the cone could hear them. The cone never worked correctly in the show, which is part of . . . → Read More: Review: Bose QuietComfort 15 Noise Canceling Headphones — your own personal cone of silence 
I’ve always been fascinated with fountain pens. I mean, it takes skill to write with one, so there is an air of seriousness and intent surrounding them. After all, technicalities aside, you don’t tweet with a fountain pen. Also, the pen itself is an engineering marvel — an aestetically pleasing outer shell enclosing a carefully designed system to enhance a controlled leak of the contained ink via capillary action through the nib. I . . . → Read More: Review: Noodler’s Heart of Darkness Bulletproof Black Fountain Pen Ink   Gadgets, Productivity, Reviews  author, books, creativity, fountain pen, ideas, ink, Musings, pen, stories, writers |
 
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