If you are planning to travel this holiday season to visit family or friends out of town, you’re probably going to want Hotel Reservations. You can always stay with family, but I personally need to be able to go unwind in my own room so that I have time to spend with just my wife and son. Otherwise the trip feels overcrowded, and I need a vacation from my vacation when I get back.
I’ve tried a lot of online sites to get the best deal on rooms, cars and other travel related necessities, and for my money, HotelReservations.com comes in above most of the big guys, especially if you’re going someplace off the beaten path like I do. Read more…
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Just Three days to the NaNo kickoff. do you have your widgets?
Widgets can help keep you, and your friends, motivated throughout the process. They’re usually simple to add to your blog, especially if you’re using WordPress. NaNo widgets come in a variety of forms, from exceedingly simple to insanely complex programming masterpieces.
Here’s a quick list of the plugins and widgets I’ve been able to find today.
There are probably many more available. I even found a KDE desktop widget (Nice if you’re running Linux like I am), but I couldn’t manage to get it to work and no instructions for doing so were provided.
There used to be many more widgets available, but unfortunately they are usually terminated due to bandwidth costs very early in their lifespan. Who knows, I may write one for next year’s NaNo just to see how hard my server gets slammed.
Until next time, dear readers…
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You know the one. That sinking feeling you get when the power goes out and you realize your laptop battery hasn’t been charging as it should be. It’s a feeling that usually accompanies a loss of hours of work, a thousand ideas, and unrecoverable plotline.
Laptop Batteries get old and go bad. It’s just a fact of life, and there is always the chance that the manufacturer is out of a particular battery or accessory. I’ll be looking to allbats.com if I can’t grab a battery for my wife’s Presario V2000 laptop from Compaq. They take payments through Google Checkout, so you know it’s secure, and you’re sure to find the battery you need in their online store.
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National Novel Writing month is only eight days away. Are you ready? Do you have your brain food stocks up to the necessary level? Cheese nips, Doritos, pretzels, chips or whatever it is that you snack on while writing, there should be a stack of ‘em next to your desk by now.
How about beverages? For me it’s easy. I just move the coffee maker to a small table beside my desk and I’m good to go. If you’re the soda or Mountain Dew type, you might want to go out and buy a small cooler and a few bags of ice. Anything that makes you get up from your writing can kill your daily word count.
30 fevered days of writing with a goal of 50,000 words, that’s what we’re shooting for here. Will I see your name on the list?
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Staying positive can be a challenge for anyone, and for a writer it can mean a make or break day for your career. For an author in the middle of a plot emergency, or staring at a tight deadline it can mean the difference between finishing a project or going over, neither of which is a good thing.
There are many ways to keep your attitude from dipping into the negative arena. For me the answer is usually some upbeat music, a good cup of coffee and a 10 minute diversion. If you’re not the musical type, perhaps it’s some really good chocolate or a crisp chardonnay. Whatever the method, if it works for you, work it!
I just read a post by “The Optimist” over at http://ProBlogs.com that covers a different approach to keeping a positive attitude. The writer here is a fan of motivational reading to keep upbeat, specifically works by Napoleon Hill, author of “the Law of Success” and “Think and Grow Rich”. I’ve heard of the second book, but haven’t gone through the first. If it sounds like it could work for you, I recommend giving it a read, or stopping by and checking out all the posts by the Optomist at problogs.com.
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