This is an excerpt from Pass the Salt I can't stop gaping at my sent messages. The number without a reply seems to grow every day. I look back at some of the older messages, wondering when I made that first introduction. I spot some messages dating back a few weeks ago, and still more a few months ago. I look at my...

Listen to The Automated Labyrinth, and How I Slew the Minotaur. The modern world’s version of the Minotaur is not a half-man, half-bull. It is the automated phone system of your health insurance company. It lives in a labyrinth of menus and hold music, and its only purpose is to devour your will to live. "For...

Listen to The Automated Labyrinth, and How I Slew the Minotaur. The modern world’s version of the Minotaur is not a half-man, half-bull. It is the automated phone system of your health insurance company. It lives in a labyrinth of menus and hold music, and its only purpose is to devour your will to live. "For...

Listen to On the Architectural Hostility of Doorknobs Before we begin, I am in the USA, where levers are rare. Most people think of doorknobs as simple things. A bit of metal, maybe some ceramic or glass, bolted to a slab of wood. A mechanism. You turn it, a latch retracts, a path opens. Simple. It’s a transaction...

Listen to On the Architectural Hostility of Doorknobs Before we begin, I am in the USA, where levers are rare. Most people think of doorknobs as simple things. A bit of metal, maybe some ceramic or glass, bolted to a slab of wood. A mechanism. You turn it, a latch retracts, a path opens. Simple. It’s a transaction...

I don't have a quippy opening today. Today, I'm deeply upset! For those not in the know, I'm an author. I run a mailing list that also serves as a beta readers email list. I treat my beta readers very well, very well indeed. I give them total access to new books going to be released. I let them see the raw, Pantser,...

I don't have a quippy opening today. Today, I'm deeply upset! For those not in the know, I'm an author. I run a mailing list that also serves as a beta readers email list. I treat my beta readers very well, very well indeed. I give them total access to new books going to be released. I let them see the raw, Pantser,...

I love it when I get email from readers. It's spawned blog posts before, and this time, well, it's going to happen again. This time though, I'm going to publish my reply for the world to see because, well, in truth, I'm a lazy human that enjoys linking to what I've said rather than typing everything out, again. Yes,...

I love it when I get email from readers. It's spawned blog posts before, and this time, well, it's going to happen again. This time though, I'm going to publish my reply for the world to see because, well, in truth, I'm a lazy human that enjoys linking to what I've said rather than typing everything out, again. Yes,...

Before we begin, Read the first time I wrote about the IndieWeb. I feel like it's popular to hate the internet now. What do I mean by popular? I'm using it in a very specific way. It's related to commodification, monetization, and, yes, opportunities. It's a different kind of hate from the Luddites, who hate...

Before we begin, Read the first time I wrote about the IndieWeb. I feel like it's popular to hate the internet now. What do I mean by popular? I'm using it in a very specific way. It's related to commodification, monetization, and, yes, opportunities. It's a different kind of hate from the Luddites, who hate...

Before we begin, Read the first time I wrote about the IndieWeb. I feel like it's popular to hate the internet now. What do I mean by popular? I'm using it in a very specific way. It's related to commodification, monetization, and, yes, opportunities. It's a different kind of hate from the Luddites, who hate...