02 Jul 2012 » 1 min read about Blog & Site Meta
If you head on over to Lawrence M. Schoen’s blog this morning, you’ll find that yours truly is the featured author on his Eating Author’s post this week. Head on over there to check it out. (And meanwhile, I am having such a good time on vacation here in Maine that I haven’t had much…
27 Jun 2012 » 14 min read about Blog & Site Meta
Bryan Thomas Schmidt is on a blog tour for his newest novel, The Returning, a sequel to his debut novel The Worker Prince. On the blog tour for his first novel, Bryan stopped by to discuss how golden age science fiction influenced him. Since then, Bryan has not only written another novel, but he also edited the Space…
20 Jun 2012 » 1 min read about Blog & Site Meta
Today’s Mind Meld at SF Signal asks, “What are the most interesting books in your to-read pile?” You can find my answer there, as well as answers from Patrick Hester, Charles Tan, Paul Weimer, Derek Johnson, Larry Ketchersid, Jessica Strider, Matt Cadin, John H. Stevens, and Fred Kiesche (whose list, in length, puts the rest…
31 May 2012 » 1 min read about Blog & Site Meta
While at the Nebula Weekend, I finally had a chance to meet fellow-Codexian, and Hugo- and Nebula-nominated writer, Nancy Fulda, in person. We sat down to chat about her award-nominated story, “Movement” and other things. You can find the interview over at SF Signal.
26 May 2012 » 1 min read about Blog & Site Meta
On Thursday, I reorganized some of the pages on the site. WordPress, once a page is renamed, does it’s best job to find a match for the page when someone searches the old site. Thus, people attempting to get to the Vacation in the Golden Age main page, were instead getting to the article I…
24 May 2012 » 1 min read about Blog & Site Meta
Every once in a while, someone will comment that various browser plug-ins report this site as unsafe. The reason for this is that some of those plug-ins use the Web of Trust website to determine the safety of various sites. Web of Trust is a crowd-sourced site in which people can report positive and negative…
24 May 2012 » 1 min read about Blog & Site Meta
I wasn’t quite finished tweaking the site. This morning, I decided to move forward with my plan to switch from 3-column to 2-column format. You are looking at the results. I think it is much better, less clutter, and it allowed me to use a slightly larger font which is easier on the eyes. Other…
23 May 2012 » 1 min read about Blog & Site Meta
I have finished with changes and tweaks to the site. Most of what I changed was minor and was intended for improved usability: Changed the style, increased the size and spacing of the font on the main article section of the page (what you are reading right now). Made the archive pages like the main…
23 May 2012 » 1 min read about Blog & Site Meta
Just a quick reminder that things on the blog might look a little different as I experiment with some font and style changes. I’ll let you know when the experimenting has been completed. That is all.
22 May 2012 » 1 min read about Blog & Site Meta
We interrupt this blog with the following important message: I will be experimenting with better font styles for the main (left-hand) column of the blog and website over the next 24-hours, attempting to improve the font used there for better readability. Just wanted to alert those used to seeing that font that’s been there for…
11 May 2012 » 2 min read about Blog & Site Meta
Every once in a while, visits to this here lil’ blog take a surprising jump. Usually it is a blip on the radar and the spike returns to roughly normal fairly rapidly. But over the course of the last two months, something has changed and the number of visitors has increased quite a bit. Quite…
06 Mar 2012 » 1 min read about Blog & Site Meta
Over at SF Signal, my latest Wayward Time Traveler column, “Survival of the fittest,” discusses how it is that science fiction magazines have managed to survive 85 years despite frequent proclamations that science fiction and the magazines are dying. Head on over there to check it out.