Site Redesign
January 13th, 2012 by

I think I’ve finally figured out the problem that I have with not being able to ftp: Kaspersky antivirus software. (Recap: For several months I have been unable to access my, or anyone else’s, server via ftp. I can connect to the server as normal, I can go into any directory that only has a [...]


Happy 2012
January 4th, 2012 by

Welcome to a bright shiny new year. I have high hopes for 2012, since I am determined to operate under the naive assumption that it can’t rain all the time…surely some years have to have good weather? In any event, I’m being positive. I’ve been working on Clockwork Bluebird edits and revisions, and have just [...]


Holiday: Done
December 27th, 2011 by

It was a very quiet Christmas this year. I got the tree and the ornaments out of the loft, looked at the boxes for a week, and decided not to put them up after all. We spent the day with Phil’s grandparents, who are 99 and 95 and still live by themselves in their own [...]


Turning Points: Failed Startup
December 22nd, 2011 by

I’ve been thinking about the failed Top Sekrit Projekt that I’ve written about off an on for years. (TSP was my personal code name, as I never blog using real names of projects or companies.) TSP was my shot at creating something amazing, and it broke my heart when we finally lost funding and folded. [...]


Happy Holidays
December 21st, 2011 by

Happy Holidays and peace to you all. May you always have a lamp to guide you through the darkness.


fear of failure
December 8th, 2011 by

Today I have read approximately 5,678,987 tweets and pretty much everything in the blogoverse. I have stared at blank white screens in Scrivener for hours. I have thought about doing a thousand really important things, but I haven’t done any of them. I’m not a lazy person. I approach pretty much everything from art to [...]