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In good news, scott_lynch has reached another birthday! May this be a year of good health, good finances, good writing, and good times, Scott!

In sad news, incandragon's family is dealing with a dearly loved member slipping toward the other side of time. Please hold them in the light. We are losing someone who brought so much zest to life -- I trust that he will find the new adventure a great one. Sending strength to those who love him.

A reminder for when you are buying from small presses....

My small press just re-emphasized the fact that Amazon demands so much from a sale on their site that chapbooks and books sell for less than they cost to print. So if you buy small press work from Amazon, you are essentially costing the publisher money. It's PR, but that only goes so far when printing bills are due.

There's a reason the link from my web site to my chapbook goes to Yard Dog Press and not elsewhere. Not only do I make nothing from an Amazon sale of that chapbook? It hurts my publisher.

Not everyone knows this -- in fact, a lot of people think that an author gets a percentage of a used book sale. (No, they don't.) So -- this is your public service announcement for today.

Go forth and be an informed consumer. Render unto Amazon what Amazon does best, and use those PayPal/credit card links at your favorite small presses for books and chapbooks!

Mobile Usability for Cats!

So essential! Turns out that cats use apps differently from humans, going so far as to like those blinking lights that drive the rest of us nuts.

Enjoy!

FileZilla, anyone?

So --

The ancient frame text site I maintain for a nonprofit needs emergency changes. My tower is in limbo and the guy who has it won't return email or calls. Last time that happened his employer sent him overseas for three weeks, so no blame there. But, I either have to buy an external floppy drive and see if I can get WIN 8 to run Dreamweaver 3, or I need to access the control panel.

The IP COMPLETELY changed the control panel access URL without telling me. Not impressed, and the redesign will be hosted elsewhere! Also -- they use Parallel as their control panel system, and it delivers an error message when I try to access the body of the frame.

I am eying FileZilla. Looks like there is a chance that it will work with Windows 8. No clue if it will work with frames. Has anyone used it? Likes it? Hates it?

https://filezilla-project.org/

I know you enjoy the weird things I get tossed into... ;^)

Has anyone viewed/used this series of samurai swordsmanship DVDs?

I've been trying to find copies used to see the first one, but no dice on Volume 1, so deciding whether to risk buying one or all.

Research is so interesting!