Monthly Archives: September 2012

Sep
6

Word Whore ~ Fox and Willow Thursday

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Bit of a later post tonight, but I was feeling a bit under the weather for most of the day. (Plus I’m trying to use my evenings to get back into my writing groove and wanted to get that done first. Still have about 100 words to go for tonight’s word count, but that’s close enough.) Anyway, I’m over at word-whores today, discussing my thoughts on Fanfic, so definitely check that out if you get the chance.  It’s definitely a tricky topic and one that many people have lots of different opinions about. And page 38 of Fox & Willow is up now as well. 🙂… Read more
Sep
5

A Room At A Time

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I’m not sure why home improvement projects always end up becoming larger than than their projected scope.  Though it’s always a bit of a risk whenever you start pulling up the floor or knocking out a wall. Probably true about a lot of things really – surfaces hide a lot of issues and flaws, sometimes. While we are waiting for our shower to be rebuilt (next week, yay!) we went ahead and decided to redo the kids bathroom. And by we, I really mean the DH, who has managed to turn into quite the handy man.  (He’s even talking about building the kids loft beds now, but first things first.) We’re lucky though – his friend has a wet saw and a blow torch, which has made some things a bit easier.  But of course, nothing happens without a few bumps and no matter how much time we think it’s… Read more
Sep
4

Trying to Lock Up the Cloud

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A story came out a few weeks ago about how this guy basically had his entire online life stolen and his computer and iphone bricked. It’s a crazy story, but definitely highlights some of the major flaws with storing one’s entire life in the “cloud.” (Some of the security holes have now been “fixed” – if you believe Amazon, anyway. The problem with having human gatekeepers for some of this stuff is that humans are…human. And don’t always follow procedure. But still.) The story still freaked me out a bit, especially considering that I’ve been getting a lot of “We see you’ve forgotten your password” emails from Facebook recently. Clearly *someone* is attempting to hack me.  Random? Maybe. Or maybe not. I’m not anyone special, but as an author I’ve got a tremendous amount tied into these social networks.  I start getting hacked and there’s an awful lot to lose.… Read more