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September 12, 2016
The joys of webmastering
So after various struggles and craziness the YoungWizards.com site finally has its WordPress install running for all to see, and the old Drupal install is packed away, and I can…
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September 11, 2016
We’re off to see the server
One of the annoying things about being a (midlist) writer in this world we live in is that you have to take care of (or have to have taken care…
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September 8, 2016
Fifty years
It’s the best kind of day, and I barely know how to begin describing how I feel. Star Trek is fifty, and I’m sixty-four… and I’ve been lucky enough to…
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September 4, 2016
At YoungWizards.com: a brief interruption of service on all our sites
So it’s been one of those weeks in a lot of ways (got the annual Autumn Cold a bit early: annoyingly delayed getting home from the Discworld Convention in the…
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August 22, 2016
The Silly Season Sale: 60% off everything at Ebooks Direct
It’s that time of the year when the weather can get unbearable and the news can get strange (well, stranger than usual). You couldn’t be blamed for wanting to escape…
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August 15, 2016
The Return to the Brown-Edged Wafer
I have a soft spot for this particular cookie (as this post from some years back should probably make plain). The other evening I got the yen to make some…
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August 14, 2016
Changing video cards: a call for advice
So here’s a casual question for the group mind. It has to do with PC graphics cards. The card presently in my desktop machine is a Radeon HD 5800. When…
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August 9, 2016
The Owl Springs Gingerbread Recipe
This recipe is kind of a favorite around here, so this morning I thought I’d put a copy of it on the blog for others who might like it. (Though…
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August 3, 2016
New in the Young Wizards universe, a prose miniseries: ON ORDEAL
I wasn’t sure what to call it at first, but that’s what it is: something a little different at the Young Wizards end of things, falling under the “Interim Errantry”…
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July 31, 2016
That favorite image of Zurich HB
Caught one quiet evening while passing through: Zurich HB (Hauptbahnhof / main railway station) in late January, 2015…
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