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South Carolina Department of Revenue hacked: South Carolina state officials announced Friday evening that the social security numbers of some 3.6 million state residents and 387,000 credit and debit card numbers were exposed in a data breach. The SSNs were stored...

The Broad Universe Sampler

It’s got me and a lot of other awesome women in it, and it’s FREE.  Check out Broad Spectrum: The 2012 Broad Universe Fiction Sampler.  My story starts: Last time this happened, I was Orpheus. Ethan was lost, pale, gone in a haze of Zoloft and Lithium and...

Seekrit Message to a Friend

You didn’t get this from me.  You downloaded it off the internet. In fact, why don’t I turn that bunch of scripts into a series of jobs and give it to you as one big lump?  (Download.) How to use: Load file into SQL Server Management Studio. Replace all...

Never throw away a script!

You never know when you’re going to have to plagiarize yourself. Seriously, I just repurposed the “migrate databases to new drives” script to be a “migrate databases to a new server” script.  Rather than starting from scratch, I changed a...

Downloadable scripts

It has come to my attention that WordPress has replaced my quotes with smart quotes, which causes EPIC SCRIPT FAIL.  Therefore, I’ve uploaded downloadable versions of the scripts. Smart quotes inserted, Script fails upon copy-paste. “Smart quotes”...

Windows Internal Database Maintenance

“Windows Internal Database,”  is basically SQL Server with network access and the maintenance tools turned off.  You might want to do maintenance on whatever’s in there, anyway.  I use Windows Task Scheduler for that, at least until I move the...

Three things make a post?

I’ll be reading at the Broad Universe Rapid Fire Reading at Dragoncon on Sunday, September 2, at 5:30pm in Greenbriar. Woe, my current story is 23,000+ words long and conflict-poor.  It needs some serious, serious editing.  But I was not writing at...

Write or Die Redux

I was doing 250 words a day as a goal, but Jen and I signed up for stickK together.  It looked like a time commitment would work better with their site than a wordcount commitment, so I said ten minutes a day/an hour a week. This works a lot better than I expected.  I...

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