Themepunks Cameo?

October 24, 2005 Timothy Sanders

However, I'm also told that the title to that land is in dispute and has been in the courts for decades. Can you resolve this for me, Chief ...?""Chief Brian Wannamaker," he said. He was her age, with the leathery skin of a Florida native who spent a lot of time out of doors. "I'm afraid I have no comment for you at this time."

Salon.com Technology | Remixing the shantytown

From the latest part of Cory Doctorow's Themepunks (which is well worth reading - that link will get you to part seven but the first part is available here)

Anyways. "Brian Wannamaker"? Weird coincidence or sordid tale that has not yet been told? You make the call.

(This blog post was made with the drag and droppy goodness of Flock for those who care. Seems pretty cool.)

Sci-Fi and the Dictionary

October 24, 2005 Timothy Sanders

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

Del.icio.us

October 23, 2005 Timothy Sanders

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.

Just Flockin' Around

October 22, 2005 Timothy Sanders

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.

Let's save some daylight already

October 21, 2005 Timothy Sanders

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!