Just in time for NaNoWriMo this
year Ben introduced me to Scrivener for OS X last night.
Scrivener is best described by its author:
Designed for use by writers of all kinds, Scrivener is a virtual writing studio that integrates the processes of outlining, storyboarding, research and writing. It's a notebook. It's an outliner. It's a cork notice-board. It's a ring-binder. It's a place to store and cross-reference your research. It's a basic word processor. From first idea to first draft: Edit. Outline. Storyboard. Write.
A new beta version was released ~two
weeks ago. The beta is currently free and the final version, expected in the
firstp part of 2007, will be released as shareware.
While I obviously haven't used it extensively yet, my first impressions are
quite favorable. I'd be happy to pay a reasonable price for this
application once it is released.
— Michael A. Cleverly
Thursday, November 02,
2006
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Earlier this week Planet Cleverly
suddenly started listing all of Paul's blog posts as new (even though they
were mostly months old) as raw HTML. Needless to say, it made the page
awfully hard to read.
I thought it was either a fluke or something gone awry when Paul
had last published his blog (& that it might correct itself the
next time he published). Not using blogspot for this blog (I like to
reinvent wheels afterall) I don't really
know how the publishing process works on the blog owners side.
Then yesterday Rachael's new post appeared in the same goofy messed
up repetitive way that Paul's had. She emailed me to ask if there was
anything I could do to fix it. Hard to imagine that her blog had had
the same hiccups Paul's had had.
Upon closer inspection the feed format for Rachael and Paul's blogs
had both changed—apparently to an upgraded version of the Atom
syndication specification. The Python software that Lou Zirkel
(he actually created the first Planet Cleverly
himself to more easily follow my siblings blogs) had setup way back
when wasn't parsing this new format correctly.
I suppose I could have probably hunted around and found an updated
version of its feed parsing libraries... Instead I wrote my own
feed aggregation software today (in Tcl) and now have a completely custom
solution that I can tweak and enhance to my hearts desire.
Ever since I started using
Google Reader I've wanted
to have an RSS feed of Planet Cleverly and
m0smith's Planet that I could
subscribe to instead of having to subscribe to each blog individually.
So that was one of the first new features I included. These new feeds are
available at these locations:
The software ("smallworld v0.1") is written in Tcl and uses nstcl, tDOM and SQLite extensively. If anyone is interested in a copy let me know and I'll try and make some time to write docs and package it up.
— Michael A. Cleverly
Saturday, November 18,
2006
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Thanks to Cade, I'm now sorely
tempted to spend "5x US$67,00 sem juros" (as they'd say in Brazil)
for the five volume leather bound autographed set of David Edding's The Belgariad.
Mr. Barrett, my high-school pre-calculus teacher & chess club adviser
(who went to college on a pole vaulting scholarship) introduced me to David
Eddings' books. It was the first fantasy series I really loved after having
completed Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings a couple of summers
previous (as opposed to other books which, while moderately enjoyable at
the time, were highly forgettable in nature).
$67.00 isn't unreasonable, by any means, for a nicely bound book in
leather. The only thing is five of them quickly add up to some real
money...
— Michael A. Cleverly
Thursday, November 23,
2006
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