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11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King
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John Carter of Mars Series by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Recent books:
- The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
- Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King
- The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross
- Autobiography of Mark Twain: The Complete and Authoritative Edition, Volume 1 by Mark Twain
- Matter (Culture) by Iain M. Banks
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Monthly Archives: June 2008
BIAM! Book In a Month
Well, She Did it. My 16-year-old daughter got tired of waiting, got tired of worrying about her college fund and decided it was time I started seriously working on my book (Or Books- Like many aspiring writers, I have a whole slew I’ve been working on, but not typing out.) So, for Father’s Day, she got me Book in a Month Workbook from Writer’s Digest, and is now forcing me to start tomorrow. If Only I could get her to …
More Free Goodies: Online Office Suites
Got A few more Online Office Suites to talk about: Buzzword is now part of Acrobat.com, Adobe’s fledgling online office suite. Right now, it consists of Buzzword, chat, a whiteboard, Document Storage and not much else. But, like Buzzword, the flash based, animated menus are clean looking and easy to use, and it promises to deliver more in the future. Then There’s Entrepreneur’s Zoho Based Entrepreneur Assist. Although it uses the Popular Zoho Online office Suite, Entrpreneur adds templates for …
5 Enlightened Linux Distros
Image via Wikipedia Regular readers know I’ve been using Linux, trying to get another year or two of decent performance out of the Coal-fired pentium I use around the house. (ed.- It died in Sept, 09. Since then I’ve been Running Satanic Ubuntu and Windows 7. ) This led to Live Linux CDs of the various “Major” distributions, a few stabs at dual-boot installations, and finally a full bore, Linux only reformat with Fedora, quickly followed by PCLinuxOS. I’ve been …
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Tagged Distros, Fedora, KDE, Linux, Linux distribution, Linux Mint, Live CD, Ubuntu
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Linux for Senior Citizens and Computers
This Showed up on Reddit today: 82 year old runs Linux I was interested. I’ve been running PC LinuxOS for a couple of months and thought I’d update readers on what’s happening. First, I’m Using Open Office and Celtx pretty exclusively for Word processing. I still use Firefox for the web and Thunderbird for Email: Both of these work pretty much the same as Their Windows Counterparts. I’ve got a whole slew of Strategy games that I play Pretty Regularly: …
