January 16, 2008

starting opensourcecook.com development

So jackie wants to take her recipes and build an open cookbook sorta thing. I’m not sure how all of this is gonna play out, but I’ve set up the dev environment for it. I’ll try to make notes about it when I can.

January 4, 2008

The Cinnamon Challenge

Here’s a story from Christmas that I almost forgot to share. Every year we get together- my parents, brothers, aunt and uncle, cousins and grandparents. We go through dinner, do the present thing, then the grandparents leave. That’s when things usually degenerate below the average level of stupidity. The incident started when my brother Jamie (24) and cousin Walker (29) were talking about getting high from nutmeg. I don’t think Jamie believed it, so Walker offered to eat a tablespoon of nutmeg for $10.

December 31, 2007

28

Whew, it’s been a busy year. Back in 2005 I wrote a list of things I’d like to do eventually that I’d be able to do if I had the time and resources that winning the lotto would provide. I’ve made a positive step towards realizing a couple of those. Family The big change this year was the addition of Ian. We didn’t get off too well in the beginning, but we’re doing pretty good now.

December 10, 2007

mmmmmmmmmmmBacon….

It doesn’t get better than Chocolate Chip Bacon Cookies. Since this is actually the second link I’ve seen about bacon that I wanted to share, I’m gonna start a new Bacon category.

December 8, 2007

Puzzle Pirates

November 30, 2007

National Novel Writing Month is Over

So it’s the end of November, and the final count is 53,708 words. I’ve submitted it to the nano site and got a nifty little image to display: It’s sorta funny because I finished early- I had a week left when I stopped writing, and I probably could have hit 60k if I had more plot. Maybe when the revision process starts I’ll get some ideas for back stories and such that I can weasel in there.

November 26, 2007

Test Post from KBlogger

Trying a new tool… lets see how this works…

November 22, 2007

50,300 Little Wins in NaNoWriMo

At 11:50pm on the 21st of November, I completed the NaNoWriMo challenge, writing 50,300 words for my book, Sinblade. I’m not done yet- I still have another 5-10k words to go before I’ll consider the rough draft complete. Here’s my ideal lifecycle for the book: Rough Draft: First complete version of the story. First Draft: First revised version I send out for people to read. Continuity and plot are checked. Second Draft: All first draft changes are merged.

November 20, 2007

Introduction to Subversion

I was planning on simply republishing my previous svn article, but realized that it sucked compared to what I know now. Prerequisites I’ll presume you have the following things. – a Linux machine – subversion already installed Terminology to Know There are a few terms that get mangled if you’re coming from other types of source control. This is just to clear things up. – Repository: the central storage place on the subversion server where your data is kept.

November 2, 2007

National Novel Writing Month

November is National Novel Writing Month, also known as NaNoWriMo. Basically there’s a month-long open contest to try and write a novel that’s 50,000+ words. My friend VP has written two books like that, Shining Star and Pulling Strings (both are good, go buy them). This year I thought I’d give it a try- I have a couple of stories kicking around in the back of my head that I’d like to write some day, and I figured this would be the perfect chance to stop putting it off.