January 2012
3 posts
Amazon CreateSpace Discontinues Pro Plan
I’m cross-posting this from the Greater Portland Scribists blog post, here
My brother Paul and I have been indie-publishing our novels through Amazon’s CreateSpace service for over a year now. We wanted physical copies of our books to give to friends and family, and to have on our shelves. It’s one of those things that is just nice to see. For every book we published, we...
Inside A Power Supply
This morning I had a problem with my server. After some diagnostics, I traced it down to the power supply. And, because I’m a little bit crazy (just a little), I went further.
Breaking the seal and opening a power supply will void the warranty. This should be obvious, and just in case it isn’t, they say so on the very seal I had to cut. Granted, this piece of electronics is almost...
Oh, Hi Monday
I haven’t had a bad day in a long while now.
Every so often they creep in, screw up a bunch of things, and then just slowly fade away. Unless you count that one September, when I was in college, where the whole month was like one very long bad day…
But I digress.
This post is about today. And today is so bad, it started yesterday. At some point in the evening (maybe around 6pm or...
December 2011
2 posts
About Download.com and Malware →
Download.com and Malware
I know I’ve neglected this blog for a long while, but I finally found something worth taking a break to rant about!
I am just now finding out about all the shady dealings that CNet’s Download.com has been up to. This site used to be the place to download software from… granted, that was in the 90s when there were only a few hundred websites total. But when I used Windows full...
November 2011
1 post
PICK version 1.1 →
October 2011
1 post
The Kindle Store →
September 2011
1 post
Publishing Site →
June 2011
1 post
Review of The Story of Stuff →
February 2011
2 posts
TIE Cleaner 2.0 →
Doesn't Anybody Edit Anymore? →
I just posted this rant about the state of currently published books on the Greater Portland Scribists blog.
December 2010
2 posts
Happy Holidays →
Calibre Review
When I wrote Fun With Netbooks two weeks (or so) ago, I promised to check out Calibre as an ebook reader / library management program on my brother’s new netbook.
I just wrote and posted a review of the Calibre ebook management software on the Greater Portland Scribists blog, here: http://scribists.blogspot.com/2010/12/calibre.html
November 2010
4 posts
Pariah →
5 tags
Pariah →
I finally self-published my first novel, Pariah, this morning. You can start reading the free sample at Smashwords. The links for both print and ebook versions are on our site at this link.
4 tags
Fun With Netbooks
My brother Paul bought a netbook on Sunday - a Samsung NF210. Now I’ve heard and read a lot of flak over netbooks over the past few months, but I still thought it was a good idea. Now that he’s a charter pilot, and hopping all over the world at a moment’s notice, it just makes sense to have an ultra-portable machine that he can still do some actual work with. After playing with...
October 2010
3 posts
Terran Shift and Pariah →
Purgatory Beckons →
Pictures
I went on a trip last Monday up to Grafton Notch State Park, north of Bethel, Maine. The trip was fun. A two hour drive that quickly became closer to three each way due to construction (or is it “destruction”?). At first it felt like I was getting a world tour as I drove through Poland, Oxford, Norway, and Paris. I was hoping to get some foliage pics, and I did get a few, but most of...
September 2010
2 posts
Work, work, work
I’ve been writing a lot lately, so I figured I might as well go ahead and actually write a blog entry too. I guess it wouldn’t be my life if I wasn’t trying to do at least twelve things at a time. While working on the release of the latest version of my game Anirah and my company’s website updates (same link - I revamped all the project pages to look nicer), I’ve also...
Anirah 1.2 and Revamped Project Pages →
July 2010
3 posts
Website And Other Updates →
Some pics from Sunday's flight →
Moving Daze
I like the new place that I’ll be sharing with my brother Paul. We were living in two 2-bedroom apartments in Scarborough but that was rather expensive. So now we moved into a single 2-bedroom apartment in South Portland. This new place feels a little like a badly designed video game level, where all the doorways and ceilings are way too large. There’s a nine-foot ceiling and all the...
May 2010
3 posts
Leverage
I’ve been reading Battlefield Earth, so the concept of leverage is quite fresh in my mind. It’s strange how easy it is to render a supposedly powerful system useless with just a little sleight of hand. Reminds me of my days at BCD Computers when I discovered that merely changing a mouse from a PS/2 port to a serial port (or vice versa) completely destroys a Windows NT system. Paul...
Holding Patterns
Paul and I found a new apartment that actually is big enough. There was just something that didn’t feel right about that three bedroom apartment in this complex. At one point I realized that we were inventing excuses to not take it, because we knew deep down that it was just too small. We started to look online for an alternate place and the first thing Paul found looked great. So we went to...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lljamie/ →
I finally got around to putting some of the photos I’ve taken on Flickr.
April 2010
4 posts
I've Been Busy
I haven’t said much of anything anywhere for a little while now. Things have been rather hectic around here. I was busy doing some final testing on Anirah 1.2 in Linux and Mac and took a short break to do all the layout for the print version of my novel. I also had to create a website for the universe my novel takes place in, as part of the promotional material (and boy do I hate web work,...
"SEC staffers watched porn as economy crashed" --... →
I Haven't Blogged Since...
“Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible” M.C.Escher
I can’t believe I’m doing this. I haven’t blogged seriously since around 1999, when I was one of the only people on the Internet doing it. I did have a few blog posts on my old MySpace page, but that was mostly technical programmer stuff and even I couldn’t stay interested long enough to...
