Archive for October, 2004

NaNoWriMo

October 22, 2004
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NaNoWriMo

I’ve signed up for the National Novel Writing Month. From the website: What: Writing one 50,000-word novel from scratch in a month’s time. Can anyone participate in NaNoWriMo? No. People who take their writing (and themselves) very seriously should probably go elsewhere. Everyone else, though, is warmly welcomed. Why: NaNoWriMo is all about the...
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Ha!

October 21, 2004
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News services all over the world are reporting García Márquez’s last laugh on editorial pirates. His recent “Memoria de mis putas tristes” (Memories of My Melancholy Whores) was released earlier in Colombia to counteract pirate sales that hit the streets of Bogotá earlier this week. Kudoz to his editor and to García for yet...
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Googlize your Desktop

October 20, 2004
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Ok, I know that it’s been almost a week since Google Desktop Search Download was launched. Still, I’ve started to try it and I must admit that it’s poweful and silent. It has a few downsides. Just like Gmail, it keeps everything, so it will require humongous amounts of disk space. It took a...
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Register to vote and VOTE!

October 18, 2004
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Register to vote and VOTE!

The US elections are almost here. Now, I don’t come from that country or live there. I hardly have anything to do with it, other than friends and family living there. Needless to say, I can’t vote. But US citizens abroad could make a difference in a close election. For more information, click here...
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