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memory's razor edge
Apr. 15th, 2007 | 04:54 pm
You know, I just realized that I've forgotten to blog for nearly a week now.
It goes like this. Over the last week, I've been working on a new story, “Marketing the Vampire”. The idea came to me while I was watching a drug commercial, for one of those antidepressants with an absurd name like Xanzobex, and the last twenty seconds of the commercial was taken up by all the various things that could go wrong if you consumed Xanzobex. You'd think being depressed would be less dangerous.
Anyway, I've been working on a story, which means I'll stay up too late working on it, and then hasten off to bed, and by the time I've remembered to blog, I'm already fast asleep, which does me no good. And if I could figure out how to write while I'm asleep, well, I'd be a wealthy, wealthy man.
I've also been playing with a new word processor: NeoOffice, a fork of the OpenOffice.org project intended for Intel Mac. You can get OpenOffice for the Mac, but it's an X11 application, and so doesn't mesh at all well with OS X's Aqua interface. NeoOffice meshes quite well with Aqua, and it's got a Track Changes feature, and it's vastly faster than Mac Microsoft Office. If you've got a Mac and don't want to shell out the dough for Microsoft Word, give it a try.
-JM
It goes like this. Over the last week, I've been working on a new story, “Marketing the Vampire”. The idea came to me while I was watching a drug commercial, for one of those antidepressants with an absurd name like Xanzobex, and the last twenty seconds of the commercial was taken up by all the various things that could go wrong if you consumed Xanzobex. You'd think being depressed would be less dangerous.
Anyway, I've been working on a story, which means I'll stay up too late working on it, and then hasten off to bed, and by the time I've remembered to blog, I'm already fast asleep, which does me no good. And if I could figure out how to write while I'm asleep, well, I'd be a wealthy, wealthy man.
I've also been playing with a new word processor: NeoOffice, a fork of the OpenOffice.org project intended for Intel Mac. You can get OpenOffice for the Mac, but it's an X11 application, and so doesn't mesh at all well with OS X's Aqua interface. NeoOffice meshes quite well with Aqua, and it's got a Track Changes feature, and it's vastly faster than Mac Microsoft Office. If you've got a Mac and don't want to shell out the dough for Microsoft Word, give it a try.
-JM