One of the best ways to deal with writer’s block is “free writing”. Just putting pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) and letting it flow, without editing, reservations, or judgment can be a great way to recharge your creative batteries. Sometimes, you will produce gibberish. Sometimes, you will produce the seeds of a great [...]
Strange things from Google Analytics Every once in a while, I check Google Analytics to see what people are searching for when they come to my site. Sometimes it shows me people are looking for my content but can’t find it, sometimes it gives me story ideas, and sometimes… it just creeps me out. Here [...]
Viruses and spyware and rootkits – Oh my! This just happened… A coworker – let’s call her Rachel - brings in her desktop from home so I can take a look at it. Apparently, it has been running slower and slower over the past few months. I reluctantly agree, and she brings me the computer [...]
Cleaning Up The Classics Inspired by the recent sanitized version of Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” I present to you some classic novels now rendered completely inoffensive: “The Fan of the Opera” “Fahrenheit 45 and Partly Cloudy” “The Taming of the Shrewd Businesswoman”