So I have been surfing around today, looking at my usual blogs only to discover that a few folks are implementing so really cool little tidbits.
The cooler ones come in the form of Plugins to make T-Square’s blogging a lot easier.
One of them is Brad Choate’s MTMacro plugin. It works great with the MTAmazon tag.
Family Guy
Futurama
Scooby Doo
Instead of spending too many minutes finding the right link and creating an associate link, the Macro does it for me…on the fly.
Also using Brad’s MTRegEx plugin to make my entries much easier to type. Instead of me having to remember to put in HTML for certain things (links, e-mail…blah) it is done for me.
I love this!!!!
Yeah, this woman should be out writing parenting guides. Seems mom got carted off to jail for three weeks…and neglected to tell anyone that her 2-year-old daughter was home…ALONE!!!!!
A 2-year-old left alone for nearly three weeks while her mother was behind bars survived by eating mustard, ketchup, rice and raw pasta, police said.
The toddler was watching cartoons when found by her father, police said Monday. She was suffering from malnutrition and was being treated at Wolfson Children’s Hospital, police said.
Hmmm…well I can see how easy it is to FORGET about your kid when you are getting arrested and stuff.
Apparently dad thought the girl was with neighbors…since that is what whack-job mom told him.
Ogden Lee, who is separated from the girl’s mother, said he talked to her by telephone at the jail Sunday and she said their daughter was with neighbors.
When he got into the apartment, the youngster had dragged food and toys into her mother’s bedroom and was lying in a baby’s bathtub. She was covered with dried ketchup, Lee said.
Yep, stellar bit of parenting right there.
I spent a good part of my day at Borders picking up some editing and journalism books to dust off the j-school skills and found in the same section a ton of books on novel and fiction writing.
No clue how good some of these are, but a few of them come highly recommended on the Borders site.
- Elements of Style (I had to pick this up in j-school many years back and I pick up each new version when it comes out. Definite must have for ANY writer.)
- Dynamic Characters: How to Create Personalities That Keep Readers Captivated
- Creating Unforgettable Characters
- How to Grow a Novel: The Most Common Mistakes Writers Make and How to Overcome Them
- How to Write a Damn Good Novel
- The First Five Pages: A Writer’s Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile
Damn, damn, damn!!! I write this post from the wonderful island of MY COUCH. Knee elevated by a few pillows, ice and heat taking turns soothing me. This sucks!!!
I have bad knees, have had surgery on one, the other, well I never got around to it.
So Saturday evening I ran upstairs to grab something and on my way back down my knee popped and let lose. I avoided falling down the stairs by grabbing on to the knick-knack ledge above our closet and hanging on for dear life.
Yeah, it hurt!
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“Everything that has a beginning has an end” - The Oracle
The Matrix: Revolutions doesn’t hit theaters until November 5, but the trailers are now available on the web.
I had no problems downloading the large, 47MB, Quicktime file.
Check out The Matrix: Revolutions website
Les’ post over at Stupid Evil Bastard reminded me of one of the many memories I have of living in Detroit: The Michigan Humane Society’s Meet Your Best Friend At The Zoo event.
If you’re looking for a new best friend - of the four-legged variety - look no further. The Michigan Humane Society is teaming up once again with the Detroit Zoo to present the 3rd annual fall “Meet Your Best Friend at the Zoo” pet adoption event. You can “Meet Your Best Friend at the Zoo” on Saturday and Sunday, September 27 and 28, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Detroit Zoo in Royal Oak.
No clue what the weather will be like in D-Town this weekend, but this is a great opportunity to check out the Zoo and help an animal in need of a loving family.
I think I could live with this. The first of what should be a series of anti-piracy CDs hit the stores today. SunnComm, the designer of the anti-copy software, is in talks with several record labels as is their competitor Macrovision.
The disc has two sets of music tracks: one set of “encrypted” songs that can be handled by CD players but cannot be ripped on computers, and a duplicate set of tracks in the Windows Media format. These can be downloaded from the CD to a computer and then transferred to portable devices or recorded to home CDs.
But these “secure digital” tracks cannot be played on another computer should they be uploaded to the Net. “The whole concept was to create a legally licensed structure” for computer use of recorded music, says William Whitmore of SunnComm.
In CD players, the disc plays normally. When put into a Macintosh or Windows PC, the disc installs software to keep the music secure, and an interactive menu pops up with several links, including one to copy some or all of the Windows Media tracks to your hard drive.
Another link allows you to send e-mail to friends so they can download a copy of the song playable for 10 days. “You’re sharing music, but you are not giving it away forever.”
Many Net swappers “think it is their God-given right to steal music,” Whitmore says. “They don’t know any better. We have to teach them.”
Seems pretty cool to me. The record companies and artists get their money and we are given the ability to share a few tracks with friends.
Now the question is how many labels will buy into this technology…and what will the passed on cost to the consumer be?
Looks like the RIAA has a bit of egg on its face:
The Recording Industry Association of America has withdrawn the first of its file-swapping lawsuits after a possible case of mistaken identity.
The trade association confirmed Wednesday that it had withdrawn its suit against a Boston-area senior citizen named Sarah Ward, who claimed that she could not possibly have been involved in the file-swapping incident attributed to her. Among other objections, Ward is a Macintosh computer user, and there is no Apple version of the Kazaa file-trading software she is supposed to have used, according to attorneys who have spoken to the woman.
Hmmm….so the RIAA can’t even get its evil culprits right?
An RIAA spokeswoman said the group did not believe it had made a mistake in identifying the ISP account used by Ward, but that it was dismissing the case for now.
“We are being as careful as we can be and are giving her the benefit of the doubt,” said spokeswoman Amy Weiss. “We think if someone has a credible argument, we will withdraw and ask questions later.”
Only time will tell, but it doesn’t make the RIAA look any better in the eyes of millions. Who knows, maybe granny was downloading mad beats for some of her sculpting sessions.
Andy is interested in starting a Bloggers Band…
Think he would accept my hubby into the fold?
He can really play…plays in a band and everything…
So how do you plan on spending your month of November? Looks like I will be writing a novel!
Andy over at the World Wide Rant posted up about the upcoming National Novel Writing Month:
National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.
Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over talent and craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved.
What fun! I am definitely all about this.
So I am making plans to spend the month of November writing my ass off. Maybe in the end something halfway coherent will trickle out of my head.
Wish me luck!!!
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