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Since the end of the year is so very close, I find myself thinking back to the books I've read this year, and trying to develop a rough list of what I want to read next year. I've also been looking through some "Best of 2009" lists, and for some reason, I'm filled with regret and shame. I haven't read any of those books! What have I been wasting my time on? Why is there never enough time to read everything that catches my interests??

But then I take a deep breath and tell myself to relax. I'll never be able to read each and every book. And really, all this means is that there will always be something out there for me to read. I'll never be book-less again!

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Testing Zoundry Raven, a desktop blogging client. Using an image by Emma Vieceli to do so. You can find the print for sale here. Post2Blog never did drag and drop very well. I’d like a desktop client that was as smooth and easy as Tumblweed for Tumblr, to be honest, but there doesn’t seem to be one that clever and slick for Wordpress.

If the bumf is to believed, then swiping this image of Emma doing a bookstore PA should just paste in here:

(Sorry, Em, I’m using you as an experimental animal, but I had to google the link for your print shop and this was right underneath in the search results.)

Tumblweed is a clever app because it matches the intent of Tumblr: fast, easy scrapbooking for the internet. Wordpress clients tend to match the intent of Wordpress, as a place to write long blogposts. No matter how the theme of your Wordpress site actually changes that supposed intent. This site has gone through its tumblelog phases, but it’s hard to tumblelog in a big complex client, and bookmarklet apps don’t seem to work so well any more.

Anyway. Let’s see if this actually works.

EDIT: the Flickr image broke within moments, and on a subsequent post with four images in, it only posted one of them. Windows Live Writer, which has also been suggested to me, is currently refusing to post any entry containing an image, using any of three different methods.

Testing Zoundry Raven, a desktop blogging client. Using an image by Emma Vieceli to do so. You can find the print for sale here. Post2Blog never did drag and drop very well. I’d like a desktop client that was as smooth and easy as Tumblweed for Tumblr, to be honest, but there doesn’t seem to be one that clever and slick for Wordpress.

If the bumf is to believed, then swiping this image of Emma doing a bookstore PA should just paste in here:

(Sorry, Em, I’m using you as an experimental animal, but I had to google the link for your print shop and this was right underneath in the search results.)

Tumblweed is a clever app because it matches the intent of Tumblr: fast, easy scrapbooking for the internet. Wordpress clients tend to match the intent of Wordpress, as a place to write long blogposts. No matter how the theme of your Wordpress site actually changes that supposed intent. This site has gone through its tumblelog phases, but it’s hard to tumblelog in a big complex client, and bookmarklet apps don’t seem to work so well any more.

Anyway. Let’s see if this actually works.

EDIT: the Flickr image broke within moments, and on a subsequent post with four images in, it only posted one of them. Windows Live Writer, which has also been suggested to me, is currently refusing to post any entry containing an image, using any of three different methods.

(Automatically crossposted from warrenellis.com. Feel free to comment here or at my internet church at Whitechapel. If anything in this post looks weird, it's because LJ is run on steampipes and rubber bands -- please click through to the main site.)

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I suddenly got the urge to try my hand at making felt plush dolls. I don't really know why--Maybe my thrifting instincts told me it was the best time to go to Joannes. I was rewarded with a generous amount of felt and cotton for only $12.45.

I decided immediately my first plush would be Doctor Who related.

( Allons-y! )

I know all my posts have been about running but it's what I'm doing.
Just completed my first 5K (Turkey Trot), my first 10K (Run to Feed the Hungry) and the Black Friday Waffle run...just a fun run.


And here are some pictures!

Run to Feed the Hungry


And the waffle run!


I am pretty wrecked.....looking forward to my rest day tomorrow.

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Yeah, the dates are outta order - filling gaps.

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I don’t normally do this, because it usually turns into a clusterfuck. But the fine little Thinkpad X61 that Avatar Press picked up for me when my main computer died horribly last year… well, it’s been worked very hard, and is starting to cough a little blood. It’s also buzzing intermittently, after the last wave of Windows over-the-air updates made it do a fainting goat impression and then turn itself off.

I have, however, quite quickly gotten used to working on a laptop rather than the big desktop machines I’ve been using since the 90s.

(And I have to say, for a tiny machine, the Thinkpad is a terrific device. Its single real drawback has been that its recovery system will steal the entire hard drive if you let it.)

So I’m looking at new laptops, speculatively. I’m not going to have the spare money for one until next year. But, as much as I also need a new phone (the Nokia N95 8GB keeps randomly shutting itself off, which is not useful in a mobile device), a work computer is going to have to take precedence.

Being in the UK, I don’t have the selection of cheap and lovely things available to my US readers. But I would appreciate some suggestions for a big, powerful laptop that is unlikely to start jetting blood and asking for mummy in eighteen months’ time.

No Macs, no Linux: I have a lot of Windows-specific software and function that I need to maintain. Don’t even talk to me about partitions and Windows emulators and whatever, I’m a working writer who can’t programme a VCR and I Do Not Have The Time.

I don’t normally do this, because it usually turns into a clusterfuck. But the fine little Thinkpad X61 that Avatar Press picked up for me when my main computer died horribly last year… well, it’s been worked very hard, and is starting to cough a little blood. It’s also buzzing intermittently, after the last wave of Windows over-the-air updates made it do a fainting goat impression and then turn itself off.

I have, however, quite quickly gotten used to working on a laptop rather than the big desktop machines I’ve been using since the 90s.

(And I have to say, for a tiny machine, the Thinkpad is a terrific device. Its single real drawback has been that its recovery system will steal the entire hard drive if you let it.)

So I’m looking at new laptops, speculatively. I’m not going to have the spare money for one until next year. But, as much as I also need a new phone (the Nokia N95 8GB keeps randomly shutting itself off, which is not useful in a mobile device), a work computer is going to have to take precedence.

Being in the UK, I don’t have the selection of cheap and lovely things available to my US readers. But I would appreciate some suggestions for a big, powerful laptop that is unlikely to start jetting blood and asking for mummy in eighteen months’ time.

No Macs, no Linux: I have a lot of Windows-specific software and function that I need to maintain. Don’t even talk to me about partitions and Windows emulators and whatever, I’m a working writer who can’t programme a VCR and I Do Not Have The Time.

(Automatically crossposted from warrenellis.com. Feel free to comment here or at my internet church at Whitechapel. If anything in this post looks weird, it's because LJ is run on steampipes and rubber bands -- please click through to the main site.)

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No, really. This isn’t serious, right?

I mean, the book got cancelled.

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Your home shopping list, by Ariana, which saves me having to type out pretty much the same list.  Did you see Wil Wheaton’s new mug idea?  Right here.

No, really. This isn’t serious, right?

I mean, the book got cancelled.

(Automatically crossposted from warrenellis.com. Feel free to comment here or at my internet church at Whitechapel. If anything in this post looks weird, it's because LJ is run on steampipes and rubber bands -- please click through to the main site.)

Your home shopping list, by Ariana, which saves me having to type out pretty much the same list.  Did you see Wil Wheaton’s new mug idea?  Right here.

(Automatically crossposted from warrenellis.com. Feel free to comment here or at my internet church at Whitechapel. If anything in this post looks weird, it's because LJ is run on steampipes and rubber bands -- please click through to the main site.)

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Firstly, forgive me if I'm posting this in a place it should be. Feel free to move, delete or exterminate the post.

As we head into the holiday season and the end of David Tennant's run as Doctor Who, I've been thinking it would be nice to do something to crafty to commemorate this.

I was wondering if anyone else would be interested in doing a craft swap with other members of the community? I was part of the Doctor Who swap on Swap-Bot and thoroughly enjoyed it, so we could even open it up to that whole community. If you're not sure what I'm talking about, here's a link to the craft swap page and here's a link to what I created for that swap.

My thoughts were that we could have the craft swap be limited to one item, possibly to be exchanged before Christmas. I'm putting a poll below, but welcome thoughts and ideas in the comments.

Poll #1491129 Swap
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 43

Would you like to participated in a craft swap with other Doctor Who fans?

Who would you like to be allowed to participate in the craft swap?

When would you like this swap to happen?