I really should try to keep up with my email. Jetpack, the WordPress stats add-on sent me an email with a report on what I did in 2011, and I only noticed it today. It had some interesting statistics. Enjoy.
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Wayne Borean
January 11, 2012
The Great White North
I’m on holiday this week, visiting my mother-in-law, the poet laureate of Temiskaming District. I’m also recuperating from fixing my computer, and other stuff. No, it didn’t include a hangover. I gave up drinking twenty-five years ago, and I have to admit I’m surprised that Molson’s Breweries didn’t go when I did.
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Futurist Prediction – The CPU Registry – And You Thought the Long Gun Registry Was Bad…
Me and my junior editor, Kleopatra
If you think the Long-Gun Registry was a debacle, think again. Wait till you see the CPU Registry.
Doing the Password Polka
Me and my junior editor, Kleopatra
Kleo and I got a nasty reminder about password security today. A fellow writer’s preteen daughter has a Facebook account. Yes, I know the rules say that you have to be over a certain age, and she is barely that age.
What Scares the Boogeyman?
John Henry Fuseli's The Nightmare painted in 1781
Here’s something that should have horror fans shivering in their boots. John Manning is editing an anthology titled “What Scares the Boogeyman” for Perseid Publishing!
Since John is a friend of mine, I prevailed upon him to send me some of the stories he has accepted for publication. Folks, you are in for a treat!
What Scares the Boogeyman will be published in the Autumn of 2012. Halloween may never be the same. Some of the stories John has accepted and issued contracts for are:
- The Fear of the Lord – Robert M. Price
- The Road to Afghanistan – David Conyers
- Failure to Comply – Michael H. Hanson
- The Testament of Tuff – C. Dean Andersson
I also know about some of the ones that haven’t had contracts signed yet. All I can say about those is that you will be blown away, totally and utterly blown away. I mean what can you do with Bad Mustard?
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Wayne Borean
Wednesday December 7, 2011
Futurist Prediction – Publishing Thoughts
Me and my junior editor, Kleopatra
Syn·the·sis: the combining of the constituent elements of separate material or abstract entities into a single or unified entity ( opposed to analysis, ) the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements.
The problem with most evaluations of publishing is that the evaluators are looking at each item. They are not looking at the organic whole.
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Copyright Wars Volume 4 is now Published
Copyright Wars Volume 4 Cover Page
Copyright Wars Volume 4 has now been published. It was rather fun reading the old posts, and looking at the things that have changed, and have not changed since I originally wrote the articles.
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Wayne Borean
Saturday December 3, 2011
Posted in Canada, Copyright, Intellectual Property, Politics, Publishing, Writing
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Attawapiskat Revisited
There’s an excellent article about the Attawapiskat disaster by âpihtawikosisân, a Metis blogger titled Dealing with comments about Attawapiskat. While I can’t do justice to her article, I did want to comment on it, and she kindly gave me permission to reprint it in full to do so.
My comments are indented in italics. Note that I’ve made minor edits to the original, to correct a couple of spelling errors.
Attawapiskat Reserve – Fourth World Conditions in Canada
Boy from the Attawapiskat Reserve
There are severe problems on the Attawapiskat Reserve. Problems that both the Canadian Federal and Ontario Provincial governments haven’t addressed. Problems that they don’t really seem to even care about.
Perseid Publishing and Zauberspiegel Announce a Contest to Submit a Character for a Story in the Heroes in Hell Series
Lawyers in Hell - the thirteenth book in the Heroes in Hell Series, soon to be followed by Adventurers in Hell, book fourteen.
I bring Hellish Tidings!
Perseid Publishing and Zauberspiegel Announce a Contest to Submit a Character for a Story in the Heroes in Hell Series! If you haven’t read Lawyers in Hell, you can buy it from Amazon.
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