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Month: July 2008

Earthquake About 35 Miles From Here

Earthquake About 35 Miles From Here

I want to make sure my family knows I’m OK, but my cell phone doesn’t seem to be working. So I’m posting here: situation normal! I felt the earth move where I live, but nothing fell or broke, and I’m unhurt. Now back to our regularly scheduled program! 🙂 Share this post:

Latest Work, 2008 Week 29

Latest Work, 2008 Week 29

In addition to the covers above, I’ve also worked on a couple more print book covers (still pending final approval), a couple more e-book covers (also pending final approval), a few magazine ads, and an illustration. I’ve gotten myself newly addicted to a game called MouseHunt, which actually helps my productivity. It’s rather a silly game with a simple concept—you have a mouse trap and some cheese, and you wait around for a mouse to get caught in your trap….

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Finally Upgraded

Finally Upgraded

I got a note from my web host this morning about how all the comment spam from all the spambots are straining the database server, along with a friendly suggestion that I upgrade my content management system to help stop the spam. Sure, make more work for me. What a waste of a beautiful morning. So I upgraded WordPress to help stave off all the comment spam, and it went pretty flawlessly until I noticed that all my categories were…

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Drowning in Comment Spam

Drowning in Comment Spam

I don’t moderate my blog comments as often as I should, and unless a comment is from someone I’ve approved once before, a comment will hang in moderation purgatory until I get to it. Well … when I checked the comments tonight prior to writing a little something, I found around 750 comments awaiting moderation. My jaw dropped. Most of it is spam, of course—probably even all of them. But when I clicked over to the comment moderation page, the…

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Latest Work, 2008 Week 27

Latest Work, 2008 Week 27

Still not quite back up to speed, but the assignments are only just starting to pick up again; one of my bosses is back from vacation—woot! I only wish I had a multiple of 3 to show. The handful of ads I did for the last couple of weeks look too similar to each other to post them all, and I was too lazy to find another from a different set, so I’ve left a blank spot (Gasp!)—I hope the…

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