Techie Things I Love About Writing

One of the things I love most about being a writer (besides the writing) is reading about writing (second only to watching movies about writers but that’s a totally different topic). It is through this pursuit that I discovered a neat little blog called Writers in the Virtual Sky. WITVS is run by a writer [...]

Second Life

So today I had my first taste of Second Life. While I was going through all the tutorials I met someone from Algeria but after I got to Help Island all was well again. I’m also on Last.fm listening to some serious Manic Street Preachers right now. I don’t think I’ve ever heard them before [...]

The Lure of the Educational Website for Kids and an Update on Technological Difficulties

Something I was thinking of earlier today that really irritates me (and what’s a blog if not a forum for anybody and everybody to complain about what irritates them?) is every housewife on Earth being concerned with educational websites for children.
This irritates me for one of a number of reasons which I have yet to decide [...]

The Internet

I suddenly have a love/hate relationship with the internet. Usually this doesn’t happen. Usually it’s a love/love “I have no problems with anything online, bring it on, I can fix it,” type of relationship. In short: I’m the queen of the internet.
However today I was about to get on Second Life when it tells me [...]

Second Guess

If you could choose your race and sex what would it be? Expand that question: If you could choose your race, sex and job what would it be? I started thinking about this question today because I started thinking about Second Life and all those other communities built around this premise.
I used to think that [...]