Halloween is approaching, and Roger Zelazny's A Night in the Lonesome October is a delightful way to spend some of the evenings leading up to it. The book takes place during a certain October in the late 1800's—a year when the full moon coincided with Halloween—and has one chapter for each day of the month. … Continue reading A Night in the Lonesome October
Month: October 2016
Ulysses: Now Better for Blogging
Ulysses now exports to WordPress. The evening after publishing my post about using Ulysses as a blogging tool, I checked for software updates and found a new version of Ulysses that will publish directly to WordPress blogs. I tried it and it worked a treat. Instead of four clicks, a paste, and a title copy, … Continue reading Ulysses: Now Better for Blogging
Draft Cover Art for Through Darkest Zymurgia
The publishing process for Through Darkest Zymurgia is proceeding apace! The layout of the inside of the book is complete, and now we just need to get the cover squared away. This is the current draft of the cover image, featuring professors Thintwhistle and Carbuncle and their dog Bruno investigating a new find, courtesy of … Continue reading Draft Cover Art for Through Darkest Zymurgia
The Problem of Blogging, Solved!
In my last post I laid out my requirements for a blogging tool. I said: Bottom-line. I wanted a solution that would let me compose blog posts off-line, using whatever hardware I had to hand; would let me move from device to device as convenience dictated; would keep the posts resident in one place on … Continue reading The Problem of Blogging, Solved!
The Problem of Blogging
I've been blogging more or less since blogs were a thing, and had a website since long before that, and I've used a whole raft of tools to get words onto the Web, from hand-coded HTML to custom markup and hand-written formatting tools to a variety of blogging platforms. Over that time, I've learned that … Continue reading The Problem of Blogging