Xandra | June 29, 2010
…the one that can render PDFs with annotation capability without making the eyes bleed. It seems we’ve been thinking about ereaders all wrong. Along with thinking about ebooks all wrong. Actually, I shouldn’t say “all wrong” since we’ve had a lot of “right” in there, collectively speaking (and any new ventures are built on the [...]
Xandra | April 9, 2010
We humans are creatures of habit. We favor routines, the familiar, the safe. Before it breeds contempt, familiarity breeds comfort. When we shop in the physical world, we favor a single commercial venue where many things can be found. This is not by accident–it costs more in resources for even the least technologically-advanced society to [...]
Xandra | September 17, 2009
Xandra | April 16, 2009
There’s a very hot question making the rounds now, and not just in Romancelandia, or even Author Acres, that oddly-gated subdivision where no one’s really sure if the gates are there to keep others out…or to keep the authors in (hey, why are the bars on the insides of the windows? And why are these [...]
Xandra | December 31, 2008
So in the course of my little mini-vacation, I’ve been reading up on the business end of the world of internet publishing, as part of the whole freak-out mode of, “Oh crap the economy’s going for a global swirly and WTF do we all do about it?” Because like it or not (and I’m not [...]
Xandra | July 19, 2008
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. Just taught me a little more about plotting than…oh, everything.
Xandra | January 20, 2008
That’s the verdict. 4-6 weeks of twice-a-week therapy and adjustments, then PT until I’m no longer bent and I can feel again. Yeesh. All this from having Zoolander Syndrome (I can’t turn left, although it’s actually right, so maybe it’s reverse-Zoolander syndrome). Or maybe Mister Spock and I have some unfinished business. It’s a pinched [...]
Xandra | December 5, 2007
I’m a technerd. I admit it. I don’t have many of the trappings of overt technerdity as one might expect, but rather, I’m more of a ninja technerd type–I prowl and stalk the gadgets until I can no longer resist their siren call…and then I haunt the sales so I can get ‘em cheap. I [...]
Xandra | November 16, 2007
At the risk of having tomatoes tossed at me, I use Wikipedia a lot for brief reference look-ups and starting points from which to jump off when I get a bug up my ass about a subject. I also cruise Wiki’s homepage every so often, and today’s random “On this day in…” selection proved to [...]
Xandra | October 31, 2007
Wow. Just wow. It’s a long watch, but oh-so-worth it.
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