By Kendall, on June 29th, 2011 
Writers, and other folks too, sometimes wonder if they should create their “online presence” and “develop their brand” using a service like GeoCities, MySpace, etc., or should they instead get their own domain?
The first way allows you to easily test the waters–kind of like blogging with training wheels. No problem with that as a temporary measure–everyone has to start somewhere.
But if you want something more permanent, more professional, that you control, . . . → Read More: Why writers should get their own domains
By Kendall, on June 28th, 2011 
Sorry, couldn’t resist taking a picture of our cat, taking a nap after a night of editing. She seems well adapted to the literary life.
No doubt she’s dreaming of captaining a starship searching for planets strange and populated with mice capering in catnip forests.
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By Kendall, on June 23rd, 2011 
So I arrived late to the campus cafeteria (a military campus, no less!) for breakfast–I had the credits on my card, but the card-swipe lady had closed her station, and the staff were sitting in loose clusters taking their breakfast. I suppose I was looking a little miserable, because one of the staff, an older lady, came up to me and ushered me in.
Most of the stations in the serving area had been . . . → Read More: Tom Peters and the importance of personal relationships
By Kendall, on May 12th, 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
By Kendall, on May 6th, 2011 
Something made me look at the calendar and then there was a small epiphany, kind of like one small firecracker going off.
I realized that, today, I’ve been blogging for 10 years!
Wow, 10 years. This was even before 9/11, which in some ways seems like almost yesterday. But in other ways, like when looking back to better years, it was a lifetime ago.
I’d had my website much longer than that and . . . → Read More: Blogging 10th year anniversary
By Kendall, on April 30th, 2011 
Where Have All the Children Gone? By Kendall Giles
I have to make a confession. When I was in the fourth grade at Sandusky Elementary School, I was one of those kids who dealt in the black market. See, there was this other fourth-grader there named Jerry C., and I had inside knowledge that he was in the market for a certain something–a certain something that, if brought to school, would get that person . . . → Read More: Where Have All the Children Gone?
By Kendall, on April 22nd, 2011 
Above is a picture I took yesterday of a little cluster of mushrooms I discovered on a pile of mulch in our yard.
Below are a few Internet links from the last couple of weeks. Highlights include why creative people are eccentric, six exercise machines to avoid, word of a new Sherlock Holmes story on the way, and the power of the Dark Side.
“Legal” disclaimers at the bottom of emails are useless and . . . → Read More: Mushrooms on the mulch pile and galumphing through the Internet
By Kendall, on April 8th, 2011 
Above: The Inn at Virginia Tech, in beautiful Blacksburg, Virginia.
Below: Galumphing links this week includes a call to visit Mount Vernon (especially in the spring), a reminder about plants that are poisonous to dogs, recipes for all those James Bond drinks we read about and saw in the movies, and, something I’m sure we’ve all wondered, just how much is Smaug the dragon worth?
Visit Mount Vernon in the spring!
10 plants . . . → Read More: Smaug the dragon and galumphing through the Internet
By Kendall, on March 25th, 2011 
Spring keeps pushing through, as shown by our camellia, but I hear winter is going to make another stand this weekend.
Links this week include writing tips and commentary from James Patrick Kelly and Will Ludwigsen, some insight into the genius of Ben Franklin, a six month journey along the 2,200 mile Appalachian Trail condensed into 5 minutes, and a movie trailer for Captain America.
James Patrick Kelly on how writing teaches writing
. . . → Read More: A camellia and galumphing through the Internet
By Kendall, on March 11th, 2011 
Above, an apricot tree bursts into bloom.
The world watches, transfixed by the earthquake and tsunami news coming from Japan. The first link below is one way you can help, right now.
Other links include security concerns about being scanned while walking down the sidewalk, bitter ebook practices by a major publisher, Quidditch news, Will Ludwigsen on breaking in as a writer, new super-strong nylon, and accepting credit card payments on your iPhone.
Japan . . . → Read More: Apricot blossoms and galumphing through the Internet
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Kendall Giles is a writer and computer scientist on a quest to live an epic life.
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