I’ve posted a new short story over on my main site. It’s called The Deadline, and it’s a sort of dotcom horror thing. This is actually a new/old story: I started writing it in 1999 and never finished it. I recently dug it up again and realized it wasn’t that bad, although it’s kind of [...]
Vorführeffekt [vor-fyur-ef-ekt] a German word, literally ‘presentation effect’ which describes a problem, usually with a computer, that doesn’t happen when other people try to replicate it (such as, say, the Help Desk guy). (I got it from Erin’s Weird and Wonderful Word of the Day)
“Many people hear voices when no-one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up on rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.” – Meg Chittenden (I got it from James Barrow on the tech writer’s mailing list.)
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