R. Canepa's Blog, page 6

Tiered Bandwidth and the Cloud

I should preface this update with the following statement:  I hate the term and idea of "the cloud" for anything having to do with the internet.  It's a buzzword that commits two major crimes:

glosses over the fact that there's nothing fuzzy or rainbow-magic about it: it's a bunch of servers in a datacenter somewhere.  A lot of engineers and programmers have put a lot of time into working on it.encourages users shrug their shoulders instead of understanding and to put a lot of trust into some...

My New Little Campaign

I've been entrenched on the creation side of content for a while now and have come to a small realization.  I think this insight came in the moments between checking 3 different email accounts and half a dozen different sites that provide stats (a tidbit which becomes relevant in a moment).

And that is: I need to be better at getting in touch with people who create things I like.

As an author / musician / fledgling podcaster, I crave stats and feedback.  Each comment is like a delicate...

Stranded Is Finished!

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My Stranded novella is now finished.  Hooray!

After forcing out a mediocre wordcount over the course of about five hours yesterday, I hit a stride in the evening hours and ended up writing 4k words. It was enough to finish the work in rough form. There are some bits that I wanted that didn't make it in, but I might be able to fit them in during the rewrite.

I'll set it aside for a while now. I'm looking forward to the rewrite, where I can make it...

Norton's Ghost Novel Now Available In Kindle Store For 99 Cents

I'm happy to announce that my novel, "Norton's Ghost", is now available in the Kindle store for 99 cents.

Norton's Ghost on Amazon's Kindle Store

We Live In Amazing Times

I watched the launch of Atlantis from my desk at work yesterday and thought to myself: We live in amazing times.  It feels like "the future" now.

We as a race can shoot people into space on large rockets.  We've gotten pretty good at it.

On top of that, even though I can't go to the launch myself, I can pull up a live video feed of it on my computer as if it's nothing. A few clicks and bingo, more information on it–including text, audio, and video–than I could ever hope to consume.  And anyone ...

Quitting Facebook

I wrote previously about The Problem With Facebook's Latest Change.  This is a follow-up of sorts to that post.

My account is scheduled for deletion, but in the interim, I'm ruminating on the whole issue before I decide for sure.

I waffled on the decision to deactivate/delete my account.  On the one hand, I felt they were going too far in making assumptions about what the internet "should" be and what users would be okay with.  On the other hand, I know that I interact with many of my friends ...

Daily Musings – May 8th

Today was a good day for productivity.  Ideas and energy to do something with them came from all over.  A few were related to things I'm actively working on.  A few got backburnered.

Some ideas and "plot points" (for lack of a better phrase) came together for STRANDED and I got 1000 words out on it without too much wailing or gnashing of teeth.  An okay wordcount by most standards, but a stupendously and massively awesome wordcount on a project that's been stalled for a while.

I submitted 5...

Download Norton's Ghost For Free

I'm pleased to announce that I can finally release the pdf of the book for free, and am doing so under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license.

You can get it from the Norton's Ghost page or by using the link below:

Norton's Ghost Novel PDF (No Cover) (1.39 MB)

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Murder Your Darlings

"Murder Your Darlings" is a pretty common bit of writing advice: it's usually meant in the sense that you need to cut or delete stuff that doesn't work, even if you just love it to pieces and isn't it awesome?!

Tonight, though, I think it also has another meaning.  I have too many projects going on, too many to possibly have time for, and so I have to pick and choose which ones will gain the benefit of my time and which ones get back-burnered.

By deciding to not devote time to a particular...