August 2005

Last week I finished up Yet Another Tech Writing Contract, which once again went into overtime as it ended and hence prevented me from posting anything here about comic books or squid. This is my usual post-quiet warning: prepare yourself for a barrage of saved-up postings. This week I have been cleaning my office. One [...]

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Here are a bunch of links I’ve been storing up for a while about self-publishing. Assuming one has experience in writing, editing, illustration, book design, and printing, or can outsource some or all of those tasks, the only hurdles one has to worry about with self-publishing are marketing and distribution. Unfortunately those are fairly huge [...]

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I don’t have the energy to do those incredibly long-winded book reviews anymore, and I’m sure you’re all glad of it. Here are some books I read recently: Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, by Lynn Truss. Man, is this one terrific book. Let it be noted: I like style guides. [...]

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A couple of years ago I was ego surfing on google and I stumbled across this Goth FAQ on the web. And I thought: huh. (see #4.) I assume it originally appeared on Usenet. It has that hallmark. I have no idea who wrote it or when it was originally posted. The claim that I’m [...]

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Usability Test

August 5, 2005

in Comics, Links

(go to the Bug Bash site and see the big comic)

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