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Ran across an interesting link: Story Bytes, an e-zine dedicated to very short stories, with word counts between 2 and 2048 (and always a power of 2), not including the title. Needless to say, the shorter ones are mostly larks (with long titles), but beginning in the 64-word stories, they start getting interesting. [...]

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Today began the first day of my new career as a serious writer. Wordcount for the morning: 364. Interesting links discovered in research: the Model 9 Portable Baptistry.

On September 20th, 2004, this was a fantasy, aside from the point. | Comments (2)

Over at Winds of Change, here’s a round-up of Good News from Afghanistan. This is heartening stuff. Notice a theme in all of these: these are all stories about increasing connectedness, both among Afghanis themselves, and between Afghanistan and the world. Increasing connectedness is the story of globalization and the answer [...]

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This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

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So, I’ve been getting fed up with the limited system resources on my Pentium II laptop. Running big apps like Firefox, Thunderbird, SharpReader, and OpenOffice has been as slow as mud. Slower even. Enter TinyApps.org. Links to lots of useful apps for everything you ever need to do, all free, all [...]

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Shoot–I broke my streak. Six days, at least one post per day. A new record, I think. In other news, the Mozilla Foundation has released Mozilla Firefox 1.0PR, a Preview Release of the upcoming milestone 1.0 of the browser. This browser just gets better and better. If you haven’t [...]

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An excellent breakdown, compare-and-contrast style, of Bush vs. Kerry | Gongol.com on important domestic, economic, and foreign policy issues, over at Gongol.com (thanks to Carnival of the Capitalists.

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By the way–I have a job now, working part-time at the Print Shoppe on Wheaton’s Campus. I start Wednesday. Thanks to all of you who’ve been praying for me and otherwise supporting me with your encouragement.

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Has anyone ever noticed that main characters in Star Trek tend to have mono- or duo-syllabic names (Kirk, Spock, Worf, Dax, Kes, Picard, Riker, Data, LaForge, Sisko, Odo, Bashir, Janeway, Neelix) while main characters in Babylon 5 tend to have duo- or tri-syllabic names (Londo, G’Kar, Sinclair, Sheridan, Garibaldi, Ivanova)? Just wondering.

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