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Write or Die!
I just used the desktop version of Write or Die to get my daily words in. It was a birthday present from my sister, and it was painless. The nicest part was when I started to sit around and ponder a name for a walk-on. I could stare at the screen and try to come up...
A one-time use script.
This isn't the entire thing, it's bits and pieces, but it's enough for you to bend, fold, spindle, and mutilate for your own purposes. I was given 70,000+ tab delimited lines that were output dumped from a program and asked to find out what version of a specific piece...
Confessions of a Monitoring Junkie
You may be asking yourself, "Self, why should I cough up cash for SQL Monitor or spend time (or pay someone to spend time) setting up Nagios?" The answer, of course, is: Do you want to know something is wrong now, or when a customer calls you and says their app is...
The Motivational Spreadsheet of Doom
Hi, my name is Katherine and I'm a metrics junkie. I have an outline spreadsheet based on the Snowflake method to which I've added wordcount secret sauce formulas. I downloaded it for NaNoWriMo many years ago. I then have a tab that's nothing but date, wordcount,...
You and Your Resume
I should really call this post, "Everything I ever learned about job hunting I learned from writing," even though that's not really true. However, there are, in fact, writing links in here. (I'm a published short fiction author under a pseudonym.) [Note: I have a...
Fitting it all in.
Yes, it's another post on the continuing saga. New job. New job means new schedule. New schedule means figuring out how to work all the other, non-job things I want to do into my life. Yeah. It's a process. First up: running. Since I'm off the evil early morning...
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.