April 2008 - All the Billion Other Moments

Links of Interest (April 10th 2008 through April 22nd 2008)

Matthew Wayne Selznick Signs Book Deal: Author and Podcaster Matthew Wayne Selznick signed a deal with Swarm Press to re-issue his novel “Brave Men Run” in paperback. Congratulations Matt!
Tags: [tag]books[/tag], [tag]Matthew Wayne Selznick[/tag], [tag]Swarm Press[/tag], [tag]Brave Men Run[/tag],
Take notes during phone calls with friends and family: One of those “that should have been obvious” suggestions. I’ve conditioned my brain to filter out most things that aren’t useful to me right now. This doesn’t mean I’m not interested in people’s anecdotes, and schedules, it just means I’m unlikely to remember them without some reminder.
Tags: [tag]lifehack[/tag], [tag]notes[/tag], [tag]friends[/tag], [tag]family[/tag], [tag]memory[/tag],
Ajaxian Featured Tutorial: Hacking transparent PNG support into IE6 with IE PNG Fix, CSS and jQuery: Ah, IE6. I’m pretty good at getting it to do what I want, but it’s very existence makes most of the things I have to do harder than they should be. This tutorial deals with one of the harder issues, PNG transparency in positioned background images.
Tags: [tag]hacks[/tag], [tag]Javascript[/tag], [tag]jQuery[/tag], [tag]ie6[/tag], [tag]png[/tag], [tag]ie[/tag], [tag]webdesign[/tag],
YouTube – Sigler Book Tour (Seattle Q&A) Part2: In the second part of the video Scott covers such diverse topics as Sci-Fi Channel’s lack of foresight and how when it appears he has made a mistake it is actually sabotage by J.C. Hutchins.
Tags: [tag]video[/tag], [tag]Natalie Metzger[/tag], [tag]Scott Sigler[/tag], [tag]books[/tag], [tag]QandA[/tag], [tag]Sci-Fi Channel[/tag], [tag]JC Hutchins[/tag],
Sigler Book Tour (Seattle Q&A) Part1: I’m not lucky enough to live near any of the book stores Scott Sigler was signing at, but luckily Natalie Metzger captured this video of one of the Q & A sessions.
Tags: [tag]video[/tag], [tag]Natalie Metzger[/tag], [tag]Scott Sigler[/tag], [tag]books[/tag], [tag]QandA[/tag],

Writing Updates: March 2008

March was not a great month for me. I got pretty sick, and on March 24th I was too out of it to write. But I did manage to go eighty three days straight without missing a day. I’ve also been working long hours, which caused me to somehow miss another day as well. I’m still not feeling 100%, but I’m getting there. I wrote 11,781 words this month, making it my worst so far this year.

Links of Interest (February 21st 2008 through April 1st 2008)

INFECTED Trailer: Amazing film-style trailer for Scott Sigler’s novel Infected (available now in hardcover).
Tags: [tag]Scott Sigler[/tag], [tag]Infected[/tag], [tag]trailer[/tag], [tag]Kevin Capizzi[/tag], [tag]Earl Newton[/tag], [tag]Tom Krymkowski[/tag],
OverDrive to offer DRM-free audiobooks via Borders: Time to try unshackled e-books, too?: This can only be good news. OverDrive has an interesting history with DRM. They have always claimed to be unable to work with iPods due to Apple’s proprietary DRM, while failing to make clear they were using Microsoft’s proprietary DRM.
Tags: [tag]OverDrive[/tag], [tag]audiobooks[/tag], [tag]DRM[/tag],
garfield minus garfield: Take Garfield (the comic strip) and remove the title character, and you’re left with something darker and disturbingly funny.
Tags: [tag]comics[/tag], [tag]humor[/tag], [tag]Garfield[/tag], [tag]mashup[/tag],
‘Lego Universe,’ a brick MMO, is in development: I haven’t been real interested in Massively Multi-Player Online games in a while, but the idea of a Lego based MMO might change that.
Tags: [tag]Lego[/tag], [tag]MMO[/tag], [tag]Lego Universe[/tag], [tag]games[/tag],

Go Listen: PodCastle

Not a hoax! Not a dream! PodCastle, the fantasy audio magazine from the folks who bring you Escape Pod and Pseudopod, launched today. The first story is Come Lady Death by Peter S. Beagle, read by Paul S. Jenkins (of The Rev Up Review). Check it out.