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• Manitoba Writers' Guild opposes fair dealing
  I just got a message on the Manitoba Writers' Guild mailing list that disappointed me; it was forwarded from the Association of Manitoba Book Publishers, and opposed Bill
• Chessudoku (much) cheaper
  Without my permission, Lulu.com changed the downloadable version of my book Chessudoku from a "download" to an "eBook." It'd still be a PDF-format file; the only practical
• Updates
  Here are a few notes on the current state of my life. As I'd hoped, my work productivity has improved a lot now that I'm out of the back-and-forth between Waterloo and Tor
• Again with the stamps
  After all the nonsense I went through to get US stamps for my agent-query self-addressed stamped envelopes, it turns out that the US Postal Service is raising their prices
• Like something out of a Thurber story
  I will soon be ready to start sending out agent queries for my novel. My plan is to send the queries on paper to agents that allow that (some require it); and it is standa
• On bible-ophilia, and a call for better pagan book design
  I hope to push the first release of Tsukurimashou out the door tomorrow, and as part of that, I was looking at the possibility of adding optical sizes to it. That won't ha
• Tsukurimashou typeface demo
  I added the Latin alphabet, so far only the uppercase letters, to Tsukurimashou , and this brings it to a point where I feel okay about releasing a demo PDF file , so y'al
• 作りましょう！
  Here's a little something I've been working on: Yes, it's a Japanese-language typeface family, created with Metafont. I call it "Tsukurimashou," which could be translated
• Fun with text analysis
  I wrote before about the writing style analysis toy ; at that time I said the "blogosphere" wasn't ready for such technology, and I still believe that, but I recently did
• Tripartite division of fiction
  I was reading the Wikipedia article on "genre fiction" recently (and it's pretty bad, so I won't link or recommend it), when it occurred to me that maybe we see the same d
• Four Web logs about publishing
  It's very easy to get into believing in "Be the change you want to see in the world." I'd really like to think that that works; I've even preached that world view to other
• On the agent selection process
  It will be a while yet before I start querying agents with Shining Path - first I want to see what the test readers think and do some editing accordingly - but in the inte
• In which a milestone is reached
  I have just completed the main writing stage for my novel Shining Path . By that I mean that no more "write more material here" markers remain in my manuscript. All the ma
• For great justice
  I'm not planning to post further continuous updates on my move to the new computer, but at least one correspondent commented that she hadn't seen any further updates in a
• A note on similarity search
  Hi! I'm a scientific researcher. I have a PhD in computer science. My doctoral dissertation is mostly about the mathematical background of "similarity search." That means
• Judging covers by the book
  Here are the covers of two different editions of the book Silver Phoenix , by Cindy Pon. One of them is horribly offensive - "like the ugly, stupid, festering toad that yo
• Writing update
  Ever since 2002, when I wrote The Fickle Finger of Fate as a NaNoWriMo project, I've had it in mind to write another book set in that universe but done properly, at public
• Status update
  I'm withdrawing from Facebook, and I'm probably not going to renew my paid account on Dreamwidth. This leaves Twitter as the only social-network type of site I expect to u
• How much does a sheet of paper weigh?
  A standard sheet of laser-printer paper of the usual thickness, either US "letter" size or international "A4" size, weighs 4.5 grams. That means 100 sheets weighs almost e
• Letter names
  (First posted in January 2003) From time to time I want spellings for the names of the letters in the Latin alphabet. Some, like "aitch" are fairly well known; others aren

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