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The Broad Universe Sampler
It's got me and a lot of other awesome women in it, and it's FREE. Check out Broad Spectrum: The 2012 Broad Universe Fiction Sampler. My story starts: Last time this happened, I was Orpheus. Ethan was lost, pale, gone in a haze of Zoloft and Lithium and anorexia,...
What Faeries Did in the Renaissance
Seekrit Message to a Friend
You didn't get this from me. You downloaded it off the internet. In fact, why don't I turn that bunch of scripts into a series of jobs and give it to you as one big lump? (Download.) How to use: Load file into SQL Server Management Studio. Replace all instances of...
Never throw away a script!
You never know when you're going to have to plagiarize yourself. Seriously, I just repurposed the "migrate databases to new drives" script to be a "migrate databases to a new server" script. Rather than starting from scratch, I changed a couple of lines on the...
Downloadable scripts
It has come to my attention that WordPress has replaced my quotes with smart quotes, which causes EPIC SCRIPT FAIL. Therefore, I've uploaded downloadable versions of the scripts. Smart quotes inserted, Script fails upon copy-paste. "Smart quotes" are not smart.
Windows Internal Database Maintenance
"Windows Internal Database," is basically SQL Server with network access and the maintenance tools turned off. You might want to do maintenance on whatever's in there, anyway. I use Windows Task Scheduler for that, at least until I move the database to one of our...
Immortal Gifts invites readers to re-evaluate the meanings of things such as life, death, freedom, hate and love from the first page. Katherine Villyard manages to capture some of the most poignant questions we ask ourselves as we go through our individual lives. Is it worth being able to live forever if, in the end, we’ll lose the ones we love to mortality? Is Death really the ultimate enemy to life, or is death just life’s misunderstood old friend? To stop hate, do we need to restrict our freedoms? This book makes readers ask and answer tough questions not only about the characters and plotline, but about their own beliefs, understandings, and dreams.