2008 January

Oh for the love of…!

It seems like every time I get a good blogging pattern going something comes up that brings it to a screeching halt.  Over the past 21 monhs we’ve had family emergencies, Moves, and of course there’s the little man of the house, who generally breaks my routine three or four times per day.All of these [...]

Yup, Still Here… At least sort of.

Sorry for the lapse in anything interesting to say, folks.  I’ve spent the last week and-a-half dealing with a particularly nasty head cold.  You know the kind I’m talking bout.  The kind that doesn’t really make you sick, but rather leaves your head filled with some sort of mental “fuzz” that makes comprehending the written [...]

Romance Author Cassie Edwards Under Fire for Plagarism

Because of some good sleuthing by the ladies over at Smart Bitches Who Love Trashy Books, Cassie Edwards is in the middle of a maelstrom. The gals originally posted several passages from Miss Edward’s books that bore a very close resemblance (O.K., can we say a nearly word-for-word resemblance) to descriptions given in several works [...]

It’s a little late but, Happy New Year!

This post is long overdue, but the holidays and other projects have kept me busier than I care to admit over the past few weeks.  Now that the new year is firmly upon us, the normal flow of writing can be put back to the fore. I’m stepping back to the plate with new energy [...]

A WYSIWYG plugin for WordPress that will make you smile

One of the largest shortcomings of the WYSIWYG editor bundled with WordPress is that like may so called “smart” editors, it likes to change your code for you. Visual editors are notorious for this, and have been for years. It seems that the designers of these editors just “know” that what you were [...]