Accountability
Not only am I using Write or Die, I’ve also started posting daily stats to Twitter. In addition to boring numbers, you get completely out-of-context sentences. You can help! You can mock when I fail to tweet! Okay, maybe not. I need positive reinforcement. I...I’m in the Broad Pod!
My friend Jennifer Pelland and I are in the May BroadPod. This month’s theme is “Not Quite Human. Automatons, AI, and Clones.” From the site: They can look human, talk and perhaps even feel human. But are they? Can an Artificial Intelligence...Your Servers’ Baby Monitor
Do you know about Write or Die? It’s described as “putting the prod into productivity” and is for procrastinating writers to force themselves to write. (Writers procrastinate. It’s a thing. You can spend hours surfing the web for baby name...Write or Die!
I just used the desktop version of Write or Die to get my daily words in. It was a birthday present from my sister, and it was painless. The nicest part was when I started to sit around and ponder a name for a walk-on. I could stare at the screen and try to come up...A one-time use script.
This isn’t the entire thing, it’s bits and pieces, but it’s enough for you to bend, fold, spindle, and mutilate for your own purposes. I was given 70,000+ tab delimited lines that were output dumped from a program and asked to find out what version...Confessions of a Monitoring Junkie
You may be asking yourself, “Self, why should I cough up cash for SQL Monitor or spend time (or pay someone to spend time) setting up Nagios?” The answer, of course, is: Do you want to know something is wrong now, or when a customer calls you and says...The Motivational Spreadsheet of Doom
Hi, my name is Katherine and I’m a metrics junkie. I have an outline spreadsheet based on the Snowflake method to which I’ve added wordcount secret sauce formulas. I downloaded it for NaNoWriMo many years ago. I then have a tab that’s nothing but...You and Your Resume
I should really call this post, “Everything I ever learned about job hunting I learned from writing,” even though that’s not really true. However, there are, in fact, writing links in here. (I’m a published short fiction author under a...Fitting it all in.
Yes, it’s another post on the continuing saga. New job. New job means new schedule. New schedule means figuring out how to work all the other, non-job things I want to do into my life. Yeah. It’s a process. First up: running. Since I’m off the...Subscribe
