My latest Wayward Time Traveler column is up at SF Signal

My last Wayward Time Traveler column for 2011 is now available over at SF Signal. In this week’s column, I point out that the Golden Age of science fiction isn’t always golden.  Head on over to SF Signal to check it out.

Rich-text blogging on the iPad

Prior to the most recent update to WordPress 3.3, I never had access to the rich-text editor when blogging on the iPad. Quite to my surprise this morning, when I went to write that last post, I discovered that the rich-text editor in WordPress now works on the iPad. This is a very big deal [...]

My latest Wayward Time Traveler column is up at SF Signal

In this week’s installment, I name names, discussing some of the more interesting pseudonyms in science fiction over the last 70 years or so, and musing on the use of pseudonyms in science fiction today. Head on over to SF Signal to check it out.

Commenting on posts has been re-enabled (my bad)

Paul Weimer discovered (thankfully) that commenting was still turned off on all posts since my domain hosting change. That was an oversight on my part. I forgot to change the setting back after the move. I have re-enabled commenting on new posts and have gone back and turned commenting off on all of the posts [...]

Why I moved my hosting service from DirectNIC to GoDaddy

Why I switched Back when I started this site, I didn’t really know much about hosting or about what kind of traffic I expected at this site. Overall, I think my expectations were pretty low. I’d been blogging over at LiveJournal since 2005 and it seemed adequate. Indeed, I have a permanent LJ account. But [...]

Site migration complete

It would appear that the change in host provider for this site has now propagated through most of the Intranet. I am seeing the usual traffic here for a Sunday and I am now (at last) able to access the site myself from my home computer (I could get it from my iPhone over 3G [...]

Temporarily shutting down comments for domain transfer

I am beginning the process of transferring the name servers for this site to the new host. That may result in 3-12 hours of downtime. As part of this process, I am “freezing” the site so that no further changes take place and that means that comments on the blog are temporarily disabled. They will [...]

I’m part of today’s Mind Meld over at SF Signal

Looking for recommendations on some of the best SF/F in 2011? Check out today’s Mind Meld at SF Signal: Our favorite SF/F media consumed during 2011. In addition to me there are recommendations by Jessica Strider, Charles Tan, Patrick Hester, Fred Kiesche, Jeff Patterson, Andrew Liptak, Larry Ketchersid, Karen Burnham, and Jay Garmon.

Website host migration: a status update

Yesterday, I completed the testing of migration of this site (WordPress install, database, etc.) to a new hosting service. The tests were successful meaning all that’s left is to wait for the official domain transfers to go through. Based on the update I received today, that should happen on Saturday. Therefore, if everything stays on [...]

Guest post on going paperless over at the Evernote Blog

I have a guest post up at the Evernote Blog: “Why I went paperless” which explains my process for going paperless and offers some tips on how to get started. If you are interested in this kind of thing, go check it out.

My latest Wayward Time Traveler post is up at SF Signal

This week’s installment concludes the 4-part arc where I’ve reported on my adventures as a “Correspondent to the Past.” Join me as I travel to report on events in the science fiction world in 2039. And for those interested in the previous installments in this arc: Correspondent to the Past, Part 1: 1939 Correspondent to [...]

12 reasons I love e-books (and a few areas for improvement)

The long holiday weekend, during which I did plenty of reading, reminded me once again why I love e-book and why I am an e-book convert. Since obtaining my first e-reader (a Kindle) I’ve read 26 books in e-book format. I have since graduated to reading on an iPad (Kelly is now using the Kindle). [...]

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