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Not going to see Avatar: The Last Airbender movie
I may have made this clear already, but just in case I hadn’t: I’m not going to see the new Avatar: The Last Airbender movie. Part of this is because I take issue with the movie’s overall Fail at changing the races of Aang, Katara, and Sokka, leaving Zuko as the only non-white character. Part…
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Yesterday's writing metrics
I’ve hit another dry spell lately, which is annoying, so yesterday I decided to try to do something about that. Throwing small chunks of words at everything I have in progress seemed to help. I did at least over my usual desired target quota of 500, even if those 500 words were scattered across six…
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There is not enough squee in the world for this!
Russell Crowe, joy of my movie watching and delight to my musical ears, announced on Twitter yesterday and to his fan site of choice that there are plans afoot to take the current incarnation of TOFOG (The Ordinary Fear of God) on tour next year! They’d been hoping to do August of this year as…
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WordPress geekery (and also books) for the win
I’ve been playing around with WordPress 3 for the last few days, as y’all might have guessed from a previous post. I am pleased to report that with some help from the folks on the wordpress.org support forums, I’ve successfully set up a mini-network of blogs all based off of annathepiper.org. More importantly, I’ve learned…
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Book Log #44: Goblin Quest, by Jim C. Hines
If you’re tired of the common tropes of the traditional fantasy genre, you can’t do much better than turning to Jim Hines’ books about Jig the Goblin. This has been hands down one of the more entertaining fantasy trilogies I’ve read in some time. Jig is the smallest, scrawniest, runtiest goblin in the entire goblin…
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Want a free game? C’mon, you know you wanna
I would be remiss as an employee of Big Fish Games if I didn’t tell you all that we’re handing out our very first Mystery Case Files series game, Ravenhearst, for free until the end of August. All you need to do if you want to scarf the free game is to go right over…
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Book Log #43: Wild Thing, by Doranna Durgin
I wasn’t quite sure what to expect going into this novella, Doranna Durgin’s shortest installment in her Sentinels paranormal romance series. The description of the story makes it sound like it’s erotica, since the main character, Tayla Garrett, must be initiated by another Sentinel before she can gain full command of her abilities. And by…
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Yet more books
More books, all electronic! Brains: A Zombie Memoir, by Robin Becker. Because you all know how I love me some zombies, and I have in fact already read this one, since it’s a fast, quick read. This is another one that does the schtick of “point of view of a sentient zombie”, but this time,…
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Safe Upon the Shore of Faerie contest reminder!
Hey folks, I’ve gotten in a couple entries now on my Safe Upon the Shore of Faerie contest, but I’d really love to get more! Don’t forget, I’ll be taking entries until the release date of the new Great Big Sea album, which is July 13th! Looking forward to seeing what other creative little snippets…
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WordPress and Apache help needed!
So Murkworks.net, my and ‘s home network, now hosts a small number of WordPress blogs. Up till now I’ve been handling this by copying separate installs of WordPress around to various accounts on the system. Which of course means that for every new WordPress blog we host, that’s another mess of WordPress files to keep…
