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Ye Old Walnut Tree

Age gets to everything eventually. The walnut tree which fed an army of squirrels and provided much shade while weeping sap onto vehicles was no exception. Some time ago Comm Ed sent an Arborist out to tag trees which were or would soon be an issue for the power lines.…

Roland HughesAugust 12, 2017August 8, 2017

Experience Publishing Technology

That Expensive POD Thing

Now that “The Phallus of AGILE” is well past 200 pages with the framework of the content in place I poked around today doing a search for the lowest priced POD (Print on Demand) service. I decided to put the worst case scenario to the test. A second edition of…

Roland HughesAugust 10, 2017

Experience Reviews

The Carpetbaggers

I put this movie on my rental list because of the blurb CafeDVD had, saying this was the movie which caused our current movie ratings sytem to be created. From a guy point of view, especially a guy of a certain age, this is an old movie worth putting on…

Roland HughesAugust 9, 2017

Experience Reviews Stories

The Big Chill

I remember seeing this movie when I was a 20-something working like a dog at my career and trying to hang onto some friends from school while desperately pursuing and advanced degree in carnal knowledge. (Hey, most of us do at some point but few admit it.) I remember watching…

Roland HughesAugust 9, 2017August 8, 2017

Fiction Flash Fiction Stories Uncategorized

Tuesday’s Five Minute Flash Fiction #3: Prompt – “Graveyard”

Graveyard “I don’t want to go in there. Cemeteries creep me out,” said Michael “It’s a graveyard, not a cemetery. Come on. It’s just a short-cut and you’ll see it might even be interesting.” Heather led hear boyfriend through the iron gate of the graveyard adjacent to the ancient village…

Gregory LambAugust 8, 2017August 2, 2017

Experience Publishing Stories Technology Thank You Sir May I Have Another

Killing Patients Wholesale

As a writer you are faced with many dilemmas. The most paralytic of these is “where to start a story?” Pen names have existed for ages, so as long as you never put a picture of yourself on your work, few will know it is you. A metropolis sized sewer…

Roland HughesAugust 7, 2017August 6, 2017

Experience Technology Thank You Sir May I Have Another

Getting Justification and Underscore in WordPress

Most of the time I create a rough draft of my posts on here using FocusWriter or KWrite. There was a brief and horrible period where I tried to use jEdit which is quite possibly the second largest pig of an editor in the world. It definitely has the worst…

Roland HughesAugust 6, 2017October 28, 2020