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NaNoWriMo 2005

Nearly there! These are the lessons learned from my second NaNoWriMo experience: * Do your research outside of writing times. * Turn off the internet until you hit your word count for the session. Then go on the NaNo forums. * Compete with no-one but yourself. * Meet the local NaNo'ers, it&

Light Emitting Butterfly

Butterfly wings work like LEDs. When scientists developed an efficient device for emitting light, they hadn't realised butterflies have been using the same method for 30 million years. Flourescent patches on the wings of African swallowtail butterflies work in a very similar way to high emission light emitting

Yarn Dilemma

If I make it to 50,000 words on my NaNoWriMo novel, I get to order a skein of Socks That Rock yarn from The Fold. I think I can make it. Question is, which one? I've narrowed it down to these one of these: * Harvest Moon * Mesa

Sony again

More pain for Sony over CD code. Hackers are exploiting flaws in the software Sony is using to remove its controversial copy protection system. Although only proof of concept attacks, security firms fear that users ridding themselves of Sony's copy protection system will soon face other dangers. Other

Miscellany

Sony recalls copy-protected CDs. Good to see them doing the right thing, though they opened up a Pandora's box with the rootkit. I'll be checking the label on the CDs I buy from now on, I don't want Sony software on my system. If

Glowing food

Glowing meat alarms Australians. Australians have been told there is no need to panic after a recent "glow-in-the-dark pork chop" scare. A caller to a Sydney radio talk show sparked fears of radioactive contamination in the meat supply. The New South Wales Food Authority said the glow was

True happiness

Path to true happiness 'revealed'. Experts believe they have found the essential ingredients to make a person's life happier. In an unusual three-month experiment, six specialists from a variety of disciplines worked to improve the happiness levels of a typical UK town. The experts tried and

Eagle Owl

Giant owl returns after centuries. The world's biggest owl is secretly and successfully breeding in England, conservationists have disclosed. Knee-high to a human with a two-metre (6ft) wingspan, the eagle owl is returning after centuries of absence. Ringing of chicks confirms that a pair of the birds has

Sony removal

Microsoft to remove Sony CD code. The software giant said the XCP copy protection system counted as malicious software under the rules it uses to define what Windows should be protected against. It is planning to include detection and removal tools for XCP in its weekly update to its anti-spyware

NaNoWriMo progress

Crossed the thirty thousand word mark last night. It looks like a lot more words when you spell it out, 30k or 30,000 doesn't look nearly as much. There's a directory for my NaNoWriMo work on the Mac, and it's filling up with

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