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May 2008

Hal SpaceJock the First

27 May 2008

Hal Spacejock by Simon Haynes is now available as a free ebook. Download it and read it and have a blast!
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Hal Spacejock: Second Desserts
I’m a sucker, er, wait…
More Writing Tools
Two Useful Writing Ebooks – Free to Download!
Humorous Science Fiction

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AVG 8.0

27 May 2008

It ain’t all it’s cracked up to be.
First, there’s the increased RAM footprint, close to double from AVG 7.5. Translation? Before, when AVG 7.5 ran system scans, I could still use my computer to do other tasks, albeit slowly and with much patience on my part. [...]

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I Was Quoted!

24 May 2008

LMD, a Sri Lankan business magazine, mentioned C3 in their News Journal section. Here’s what they said:
Snap, And You’re On the Net!
Digital photography is all the craze in the [...]

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My Readers Are Intelligent

23 May 2008

Because I’m the curious sort, I look into things like what platforms or which browsers the visitors to my site are using. I’m happy to be able to announce that Firefox users are in the majority. True, I’m biased – I really like Firefox for its tabbed browsing, which Opera and [...]

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Top Searches For My Site

22 May 2008

I’m easily amused. It’s true. These are the top searches that got people to my site:

Cow haiku / love haiku / haiku cow / cow haikus / haikus / haiku about cows / haiku on cows / a new form [...]

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Scam! Scammy! Scammer! Scammiest!

20 May 2008

I’m following Mad Scientist Matt in the AW Blog Chain, and he talked about scams regarding fuel savings and cars. Well, I know nothing about scams and cars, but I do know plenty about scams and publishing. Or scams and the Internet. Scams and email. There sure are a lot of [...]

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Deadlines? What Deadlines?

16 May 2008

If you worked as an accountant and paid the sales taxes a month or two after they were due, do you think there would be any negative implications? If you worked as a receptionist and answered the phone only after it stopped ringing, do you think this would pose any problems? [...]

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Six True Things and One Lie

13 May 2008

It’s a meme I stole from Angela over at The Bookshelf Muse in which a person tells six truths and one lie about themselves. And then everyone else gets to guess which is which.

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Quirks or Freak of Nature? You Decide.
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Angela Hoy comments on [...]

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B ProfeshNul, Ya?

12 May 2008

"Wat do you tink? Is dis ok for dat article U want?"
Does that look like a great way to start an email? Do you honestly think it’s going to impress an editor when you use leetspeak or chat shorthand or just plain bad English?
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What’s In A Name?

11 May 2008

A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet, but they might not respond when the email comes in if you don’t get the details right.
First step is to find out who the correct editor is to submit your proposal to, assuming that there’s [...]

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