My Family History Website is Done!

For the past month, I’ve been hard at work on a website to display my genealogy. As nice as the New Family Search and PAF are, I get lost in my own family tree, and I wanted an easy display of all the records associated with each person. So, I created http://eastwoodfamhist.110mb.com/ It’s been a great [...]

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Computers and Family History

This week, I haven’t been getting as much writing done as I want to because I’ve been bitten by the Family History Bug (or overwhelmed with the Spirit of Elijah, to put it another way). And I have to say I’m excited with what’s going on with Family Search.
The first thing I’m excited for is [...]

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How Do You Like to Blog?

I volunteered to teach a class on how to blog in Enrichment next month. When I do so, I want to offer information about the different blogging sites available (blogger, livejournal, wordpress) and the different ways to congregate RSS feeds. So, I have a few questions for you, my readers, so I can learn why [...]

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What Daniel Does All Day

When people ask me what Daniel does at work, and I say he works for Amazon Prime, several people don’t know what that group does. So, here’s the run-down. If you sign up for Amazon Prime, you get-
1.    Unlimited FREE Two-Day Shipping on millions of Amazon.com Items (pretty much anything that is available for [...]

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Farworld Giveaway Winner!

The winner of a Farworld-Water Keep ARC is …
(drum roll)
Kam A!
Please email your address to storyengineer at gmail dot com so I can have J. Scott Savage send you your prize.
Thank you to those who entered!

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Reminder- Farworld Giveaway!

There’s only 2 days left to enter my giveaway for Farworld! NOBODY has entered yet, so you have a good chance to win! Read my review to see why I think this book is worth reading. Then to enter, follow these rules.
You have two chances to enter: Chance 1 – leave a comment on my review listing [...]

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Blogger Award

Shanna gave me a blogger award! It’s my very first one.

Now keeping with tradition, I’ll pass it along to ten people.
Editors and Agents. If you’re a writer and don’t read these blogs, you should.

BookEnds, LLC – A Literary Agency From the recent pitch critiques, to talking about the kind of books they’re looking for, this [...]

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New Look

In celebration of the new year (and because customizing the sidebar didn’t look so good with my old blog theme) I changed the look of my blog. The side bar has also changed. The meta category (included links to log in to wordpress) is now gone, and I added a widget to keep track of [...]

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Interface for Red Pen: An Online Writing Group

So, yesterday, I turned in my design of the online writing group. This design included 10 pictures of the actual interface. I’ll just post a few here for your reading pleasure. Please understand that I didn’t care about changing the colors of anything. I was more concerned with where things were on the page. It [...]

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Creating an Online Writing Group

For my Internet Programming class, I need to write an application of my design. I’ve decided to create an online critiquing group for writing. It was a kind of spur of the minute decision. I was sitting in class, and the teacher was asking students to share what they were thinking of doing. This idea [...]

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