NaNoWriMo utilities

Hubby put together a page detailing the NaNoWriMo utilities he's written.  They are free to use, but if they suck too much of our bandwidth, they'll be taken offline.

Telephone archaeology

I'd really like to know who used to have my home phone number.  Someone's trying to make a collect call to us from the Orange County Jail in California.  They've called twice now and I have no idea who they are.  I have no

Random round up

The end is nigh, I'm working on the toe of Sehlat's second sock.  It will be done before NaNo, two months late but still before Christmas.  I love making socks, I just wish I could do it faster than two months a pair.  I have three

NaNoWriMo progress graph

So here's the deal with my NaNoWriMo progress graph.  Hubby wrote it for me.  It's a Java Servlet and it DOES use up our bandwidth, which we pay for.  Hubby is an amazingly good Java programmer which is why it's so cool.  These are

Woot!

Security under the skin.  This is a NaNoWriMo plot device waiting to happen! A US company has been given the green light to implant microchips in humans.  It's intended to provide medical information ... but will it turn into a surveillance system?  How would you like to have the

US Electoral system

Would someone please educate me on what the US "electoral college" is and what it does?  I'm confused.  In the UK it's different.  You vote for your local chap, and whichever party gets the most local chaps elected gets to play Government for four

Why?

I like America, I really do, but this country does one thing that drives me batty and I cannot figure it out. Why do you coat the rutabaga (Swede) in wax? Why?  Why?  Why?! Of all the vegetables, only this one is subject to such indignity, and it makes them

Knitting progress

I promised acorn hat and sock pictures after the big political post, so here they are: One of these things is not like the other.  I managed to do one sock with one less stitch than the other, but I cannot believe it would make this big a difference!  I

NaNoWriMo 2004

Working on my roadmap for NaNoWriMo.  I have a general plot and I'm inventing subplots as I go, each of the four main sections ends with a big crisis.  According to the roadmap, I have a great start, and need to work on the ending.  I completely forgot

Testing...

This is the NaNoWriMo progress graph Hubby wrote for me, using these figures: * Day one 1000 words * Day two 1000 words * Day three 2000 words * Day four 2000 words * Day five 1667 words * Day six 2000 words * Day seven zero words * Day eight 2500 words It's a PNG