Author: LMAshton
Search Phrases That Lead People to My Site
Reviewing the search phrases that get people to land here, I see that most of them are,…
Two Useful Writing Ebooks – Free to Download!
Donald Maass’s The Career Novelist: A Literary Agent Offers Strategies for Success is available for free download…
Sri Lankan and International Intellectual Property Law
A friend recently had some issues with intellectual property laws and procedures in Sri Lanka. As a…
Googling Yourself Can Be Useful
Here I am, minding my own business, comparing results between two search engines – Cuil and G<a…
Exercise in a Pill?
<a href=”http://www.nbcnews.com/id/25949447/” target=”_blank”>It’s touted as a couch potato’s dream</a>, but the ramifications and potential uses go far…
Severely Overpriced Computer Cables
My brother Tony’s blog can be a bit, well, geeky and way over my head when he…
Cork as a Renewable Resource
Browsing my <a href=”http://blogs.msmvps.com/access/” target=”_blank”>brother’s blog</a>, I read an entry where he links to a news article…
Is It You?
Ever wanted to know whether a site was down or whether it was you? This site is…
Reading Comprehension 101
I was reading the comments to a post over on Making Light when I saw a post…
coComment. Good Idea / Bad Idea?
coComment is a site that offers the service of tracking your comments through cyberspace on the various…
Top 100 Must-Read Fantasy Novels
This list I got from Fantasy Book Review. Since lists are not copyrightable, I’m duplicating it here….
Top 100 Must-Read Science Fiction Novels
Edited to add: I saw an addendum to Rosemerry’s post over on her blog and learned that…
More on Plagiarism in Sri Lanka
Sometimes, I just wonder about people. Really, I do. I’ve mentioned in previous posts that plagiarism, copyright…
Software Piracy in Sri Lanka
In a previous post, I talked a bit about piracy and copyright violations in Sri Lanka and…
Piracy, Plagiarism, and Stolen Content in Sri Lanka
Speaking about yesterday’s post and that news site, there’s a lot more content on that site that,…
More Copyright Violations
In yesterday’s post, I alluded to the fact that I’ve experienced more than just one copyright violation….
The Colombo Museum
Published in Travel Sri Lanka magazine, September 2004. By Laurie Ashton I’m one of THOSE people. You…
Copyright Violations
Again. sigh This all started with the Book In a Week (BIW) group on Yahoo! Groups. One…
More Cool Sites
A Glimpse of the Milky Way. Click on it and look. This is a seriously cool way…
Some interesting websites
I came across some interesting websites… A new way to multiply – it’s bizarre to me, but…
Sri Lanka Links
Sri Lanka. Cuz I live here now. That’s why. If there are any links you’d like to…
About Sri Lanka
Official name: Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, or, in Sinhalese Sri Lankā Prajathanthrika Samajavadi Janarajaya. Sri…
Donations – 26 Dec 2004 Tsunami Relief
Donations I’ve had a lot of emails from people asking where to donate, so I have consolidated…
Why “A Canadian in King Parakramabahu’s Court”
There were nine King Parakramabahus, but we’re talking about the sixth, the one who was the King…