Q.I. Productions – a wombat, the sink, and how it got there

Gravity’s Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Thomas Pynchon

Back on Gravity’s Rainbow in the lead up to our next child being born, as I expect I won’t have the a) energy or b) time to read for a few months after the little tyke shows up, cap in hand, at our doorstep, or down our chimney. [...]

Now, not to engage in the ridiculous Beckett vs. Wakefield debate that the Fox broadcast crew insisted on talking about until I hit the mute button and grabbed the radio for WEEI’s take on the matter (and that bullsh*t article by Nick Cafardo in the Globe this morning… sorry, I can’t bear to link to [...]

Interesting first shot by Mark Bernstein, with promises for more:
Mark Bernstein: NeoVictorian 1: Civilization and its Discontents
Why do I say we are unhappy?
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• Our scientific conferences are filled with papers that focus on incremental improvements observed when asking unskilled laborers (whom we call “novices”) to perform office chores. We call this “usability”.
• Scholars interested in [...]

Took a look at this thread over on the geared up NaNoWriMo.org site and figured I’d write down my favorite tech suggestions.
It’s basically culling my tools from this post, as well as a few of the general tools from this post:
Writer.app for drafting, Tinderbox and OmniOutliner for thought organization and outlining, Mellel for general word [...]

While we’re all waiting around for the next baby to be born…
Q.I. Software’s been busy, updating both useful services (ContactCreator and CalendarCreator) to Universal Binary, so they’ll run happily on your shiny Intel Macs to your crusty old PPC Macs.
And Writer.app 1.2.5 is out with a little bug fix for those recent items you’d been [...]