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Writing

Technical writing and thankless tasks

I think that both Dana Blankenhorn and Marius Coomans will be good for open source, as they both question the concept without worry of offending the legions of open source fans, and seemingly without any axe to grind. Dana recently questioned the lack of documentation and support associated with open source projects. In particular documentation, writing: Documentation, […]

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Writing

Spell check your comments

Cold Forged did a very nice encapsulation of spell checking as a plug-in for WordPress. I grabbed the code and incorporated it as a new option in my comments’ pages so you can spell check your comments–both the live comment, and the saved comment in the edit window. But will we have as much fun without our […]

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Books History

One hundred trails

I had a successful venture at the library last week and came home with several very good books. One is Birth of a Chess Queen by Marilyn Yalom, which I found to be a very entertaining book and plan on writing more about later. I also found a book on the Korean “comfort women”, women held as […]

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Just Shelley Social Media Writing

Weblogging is for winners

Page archived, with comments, at Wayback Machine Marc Canter called me a couple of months ago about a new concept he was working that would help webloggers make money. The concept became reality today, as several people started making 800.00US a month to promote a new CMS called Marqui. When Marc and I talked, I was ambivalent […]

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Books Just Shelley

A little puffery

I discovered that I’m a Google Scholar. I guess this means that you’ll have to treat me with more respect; call me “Ms. Powers” or perhaps “Lady Burning” (please, not “Lady Bird”) and that sort of thing. I don’t normally jump on all the cool gadgets that come out, but the Google Scholar looks to be […]