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New Witches Story: “Interception”

Part seven of The Witches of Ming Ung: "Interception" Here's a snippet: "Yeah, sure," Markos said. "When are you coming home?" he whined. "This place is all big and lonely without you." "Markos, it took forever just getting here," she said. "We're just getting into the swing of things. It could ...

One-on-one meetings

I'm going to put on my team lead hat for a minute. Many moons ago, I stumbled across and read Johanna Rothman and Esther Derby's excellent Behind Closed Doors. One of many great managerial practices and recommendations in the book is to do one-on-one meetings: a regular (weekly) ...

Bujold’s Mirror Dance

I've got a big crush on Miles Vorkosigan. He's got a sense of style that appealed to me as soon as I read Young Miles back in the day. He's not so silly as to be fearless, but is manic enough to keep getting embroiled in shit and ...

Inflation!

So I'm filling up my library from memory, and I've just discovered the best way to "bloat" it ever. See, back in elementary and middle school, I lived near a Half-price Book Store. During one trip, I discovered... Star Trek books. ...I bought them. All of them. So now I have ...

Won over by Pratchett

A few months ago, I was cajoled into reading [tag]Soul Music[/tag], by [tag]Terry Pratchett[/tag]. Couldn't stand it. I got at least half way through, and found it to be boring and the humor contrived. A couple of weeks ago, though, I picked up [tag]Going Postal[/tag], and proceeded to laugh ...

Search-building: custom or Google

Until earlier this week, I had a lousy site search in place. It was one of Google's Custom Search Engines, barely configured and only on its own page, due to it's hefty (and blocking!) JavaScript. I'd long since disabled Wordpress's search since my stories aren't being run in ...

Weekend linkage

Just a few, since I'm so far behind on my reading (down to 425 unread items!) and I just posted a set on Friday. Enjoy. How to Help Your Kids Build $25,000 Stock Portfolios - This is a tempting idea even with regards to something like weddings. "Help us ...

Chapter 10 of Witches posted!

Chapter 10, "Opening Salvo" is posted: "What brings you to my world, little bug?" the colorful woman asked Hardi and Robert. Her glance flitted between both of them before settling on Hardi. "Well?" she cooed, head tilting. Her accent was much lighter than Lucia's. Hardi straightened in her seat. "We're looking for ...