Timothy Sanders 10/24/05 Timothy Sanders 10/24/05

Sci-Fi and the Dictionary

I ought to be working, but I couldn't help but stop and observe that the OS X Dictionary (and spellchecker) know the word "buckyball", but not "nanomachine".

I've almost finished teaching the spell checking place and character names for the Magic novel - guess I need to work on some generic sci-fi vocabulary.

Technorati Tags: writing, OS X, observation

I ought to be working, but I couldn't help but stop and observe that
the OS X Dictionary (and spellchecker) know the word "buckyball", but
not "nanomachine".

I've almost finished teaching the spell checking place and character names for the Magic novel - guess I need to work on some generic
sci-fi vocabulary.

Technorati Tags: writing, OS X, observation

Timothy Sanders 10/23/05 Timothy Sanders 10/23/05

Del.icio.us

And since Flock made me get a del.icio.us account - here is my bookmark page. Later I'll see about automating some sort of dump onto this page somewhere.

Timothy Sanders 10/22/05 Timothy Sanders 10/22/05

Just Flockin' Around

Getting off the ground with Flock (ayuck) isn't so hard. Really!You just need to get a few things squared away and then you're off! To begin:

Flock

I'm just playing around with Flock - the new "social" browser. Which lead to a del.icio.us account, something I've been meaning to do anyway. This is a test of the "web quotes" function - where Flock basically hooks into your blog. That quote above is from me dragging and dropping text from a web page onto a button. Interesting stuff.

Getting off the ground with Flock (ayuck) isn't so hard. Really!You just need to get a few things squared away and then you're off! To begin:

Flock

Timothy Sanders 10/21/05 Timothy Sanders 10/21/05

Let's save some daylight already

I've always been very sensitive to light. I wouldn't say I get Seasonal Affective Disorder or anything, but I like a nice dose of sunshine. One of the big draws of the working from home is that I can reach out and touch the large window in my office. It seems like it's taking longer and longer to get any useful sun these days. It is still completely dark when Karin leaves in the morning. According to Senor Weatherdock sunrise is at 7:22 today, but it will be cloudy, so it's going to be early afternoon before we see some good light. I would have said a just a week or two ago I had morning sunlight blasting through the blinds and straight into my retinas during morning cofffee/email/web. Now I've got two lights on in my office, and only milky, crudddy gray light is outside. I'm always surprised when Daylight Saving Time kicks in, so I say out with the PDT and in with the PST. But we've got another week. And in 2007 they add another week!

I've always been very sensitive to light. I wouldn't say I get Seasonal Affective Disorder or anything, but I like a nice dose of sunshine. One of the big draws of the working from home is that I can reach out and touch the large window in my office.

It seems like it's taking longer and longer to get any useful sun these days. It is still completely dark when Karin leaves in the morning. According to Senor Weatherdock sunrise is at 7:22 today, but it will be cloudy, so it's going to be early afternoon before we see some good light.

I would have said a just a week or two ago I had morning sunlight blasting through the blinds and straight into my retinas during morning cofffee/email/web. Now I've got two lights on in my office, and only milky, crudddy gray light is outside.

I'm always surprised when Daylight Saving Time kicks in, so I say out with the PDT and in with the PST. But we've got another week. And in 2007 they add another week!

Timothy Sanders 10/16/05 Timothy Sanders 10/16/05

Links-a-plenty

One day I'll get around to figuring out to use del.icio.us but until then I'll just dump some links here. 1) Over at Lost Garden an excellent essay on alternate business models for game companies. 2) Secondary markets - they are destroying video games! Not so says GamerDad 3) Secondary markets - they are destroying publishing! Not so says Miss Snark 4) Folk version of Baby Got Back? Go to Jonathan Coulton for the hookup. While you're there check out the Ikea song which I've heard from IndieFeed. I haven't listened to his other stuff, but I will soonish.

One day I'll get around to figuring out to use del.icio.us but until then I'll just dump some links here.

1) Over at Lost Garden an excellent essay on alternate business models for game companies.

2) Secondary markets - they are destroying video games! Not so says GamerDad

3) Secondary markets - they are destroying publishing! Not so says Miss Snark

4) Folk version of Baby Got Back? Go to Jonathan Coulton for the hookup. While you're there check out the Ikea song which I've heard from IndieFeed. I haven't listened to his other stuff, but I will soonish.