This has the potential to be a long post so, fair warning. First up: Laptop is back. The Apple store was packed. Again. I mean, really packed. Like, wall to wall people, packed. Shocking for a weekday, midday, if you ask me. But you didn’t ask me, did you? My actual time spent waiting...
Hi there. Been very quiet online the past week or so. This is due to my ongoing computer issues. I have a 2 year old 13 inch MacBook Pro. A week ago yesterday (Sunday), it froze when I was working in Word and Scrivener. Since then, it has frozen at least once a day,...
So, one of the things that has always bothered me about WordPress is the Site Stats plugin. I understand Akismet and why it links off to a 3rd party database filled with spam fighting stuff, but why must Site Stats? I mean, it’s data about MY site, right? Why not simply track that internally?...
I’ve had a lot of people asking me about podcasting recently. Not surprising given how much podcasting I do these days. I mean, I’ve got the Functional Nerds with John Anealio, the SFSignal podcast and the producer gig for Mur Lafferty on I Should Be Writing – that’s a lot of gravitas under my...
/begin random thoughts The balance between work and not work is always a tricky one. You have to work in order to succeed (sorry if I just burst a bubble there for you – it really is true. Promise). You have to enjoy your work or you won’t do it well and, therefore, won’t...
I said I’d do it, I warned you – you didn’t listen, did you? Well, now it’s TOO LATE! THE RETURN OF THE PODCAST IS HERE! Episode 9 of the All Things From My Brain Podcast is here. In this weeks massive, DOUBLE SIZED, MAXI-PODCAST, I am joined by a special guest on his...
Star Trek: The Original Series. Probably one of the strongest influences on my life from a very young age was the original Star Trek. Rerun in syndication almost endlessly, the original Star Trek was huge in my life growing up. I knew the characters so well you’d think they were family. I could quote...
Actually spent a little time this evening going through my Google Reader and looking for interesting things to share. Technology / Science News Google’s Nexus One phone sparks flood of complaints. Just eight days after Google opened its online store to sell the new Nexus One smartphone directly to customers, its support forums have...
Faxiophiles I’ve been around computers and technology for as long as I can remember. I cut my teeth on the Apple Color Computer II, then the TRS-80 (Trash80) from Radio Shack. I recall BASIC and DOS, played Pong, the Nintendo Entertainment System, the Sony Playstation and the XBOX-360. I’ve fond memories of dialing into...
I find these things interesting, and thought I would share em by compiling a list here today. The names were NOT changed to protect the innocent. Ars Technica Ars Technica has a lot of interesting articles each week. Sometimes I link em on Twitter, sometimes I don’t. Last week, they talked about advertising and...
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Patrick Hester is an author, blogger and Hugo Nominated Podcast Producer/Host who lives in Colorado and writes science fiction and fantasy (mostly)...[click to read more]
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