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Best of the Aerie 2009

December 31, 2009

Yes, I know I just posted a 2009 retrospective, but it really wasn’t as meaty as I wanted it to be. So following the lead of my wonderful friend Tami, I want to present to you what I consider the best article I gave you from each month of 2009.
Audio in WoW: How I [...]

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Where did the year go? A retrospective look at 2009

December 29, 2009

As I write this, I’m sitting at the breakfast bar in in our vaction house on Kaua’i, at about 9:30 in the morning on December 29. It struck me that there are but three days left in what so many are (incorrectly) labeling the last year of the first decade of the new millenium.1
I’m not [...]

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Coming Soon to An Aerie Near You!

December 7, 2009

Get ready for meatier articles later this week: Today, I visit the Saucy Wenches Podcast, where we’ll discuss, for you NaNoWriMo folks, "What next?" I’ll talk about setting up your manuscript to be edited, and how not to be overwhelmed by the seeming enormity of the task before you.
Once I’ve recorded that podcast, I’ll put [...]

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A Quick Reflection on NaNoWriMo

November 26, 2009

November is not quite over, but neither is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). However, a couple friends of mine, Krizzlybear and Iris Harper, have hit 50,000 words composed in November, emblematic of "winning" NaNo. I’ve "known" Krizz for some time now, through our blogging relationship born out of World of Warcraft (you may recognize Kriz  [...]

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Kestrel’s Aerie: Now With Audio!

November 24, 2009

If you take a peek at the preceding article, you’ll notice there is now an embedded audio player. It contains a recording of the article, in case you want to multitask while reading listening. I got the idea for embedding audio from a suggestion I made to Tami to record her latest post, because it [...]

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A Model Disclaimer

November 21, 2009

I was looking at Astropixie’s blog this morning, as I am wont to do whenever she posts anything. Today’s entry is a spectacular animation of what the Earth would look like if it had a ring system similar to Saturn’s (and what those rings might look like from Earth). Definitely worth a look! (And "Ave [...]

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So Long, Intense Debate

November 12, 2009

Without going into a lot of detail (most of which is documented in the comments to the preceding article) I’ve uninstalled Intense Debate after a 24-hour trial. The issues ID presented were more than I wanted to deal with and try to correct (and, I think, some could not be "fixed"). Don’t misunderstand: For many [...]

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Intense Debate Now Active!

November 11, 2009

Next time you visit the Aerie, the comments section will look a bit different than in the past: I’ve just installed and activated Intense Debate (ID), a blog commenting system to enhance reader engagement and interaction. In addition to the same threaded comments presentation and ability to subscribe to comments and replies, ID now includes [...]

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Why You Should Subscribe to the Aerie by Email

November 10, 2009

How many of you have a feed reader full of unread blog articles? Yeah, so do I; currently, my unread count stands at 163 items, mostly in WoW blogs. And that’s after reading almost all the stuff I really want (or “need”) to read today!
Many people who are faced with this onslaught of bloggination simply [...]

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Caught In A Blogging Black Hole

November 9, 2009

Everyone should know what a black hole is, but in case you don’t, allow me to describe it in what can only be described as “layman’s terms.” A black hole exists (usually) where a star has collapsed on itself, and all the mass of the star has likewise collapsed into a very, very small volume. [...]

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