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Category Archives: Criticism, Marginalia, and Notes

Changes and Unexpected News

Saturday, October 3, 2009

The conlang scripts may not have been the problem after all!
Perhaps, when we do track down the issue, I’ll be able to reenable some, if not all, of my conlang apps for your future enjoyment! Be sure to watch this space for news!!

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No Free Lunch

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
You know, when I first started using the Internet, pretty much everything was free.  Once you got used to searching, you could find just about anything on the ‘net, all the way up to and including source code for all kinds of things.  So, in that spirit, I [...]

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How To AutoCreate A ConLang

Thursday, September 3, 2009

I’m writing this in response to the person who e-mailed me asking for instructions on how to use my Conlang Word Maker.
Now, without any intended smarmy-ness, I really thought it was self-explanatory, but, then again, when I wrote this webapp, I was steeped in conlanging. Also, it was based on another program called LangMaker [...]

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Bit Rot

Thursday, August 27, 2009

By all rights, this blog should be dead.
Frankly, the entire website is so old and out of date and willfully not maintained that I’m surprised there’s any traffic to it.  But, there is.  And with any large volume of people, there are always those who take advantage and push free resources beyond their intended use.  [...]

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Free Titles

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Titles come easily to me.
Maybe it has something to do with the way I was introduced to creative writing back in the Fifth Grade, but titles have always been easy for me. Our teacher used to put up titles on the board and we had to write stories that were based on that title. So, [...]

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Happy Birthday, Mr. Herbert!

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Today is Frank Herbert’s Birthday.
Of course, he passed away in 1986, the year I graduated from high-school, but his work lives on. Mr. Herbert is primarily known for his seminal work, Dune, and the other books in the series that followed. Though, interestingly enough, he never intended to write sequels.
Often refered to as the science-fiction [...]

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Dialect Maker Down for Good

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Well, it seems my antiquated Perl code is just a little too much for my new webhost’s servers to handle.
My web implementation of the Zompist Sound Change Applier almost killed their server this past weekend.  It uses a CPAN library that someone created, based on the Zompist code, and it’s getting a little “long in [...]

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Dialect Generator Down

Friday, April 25, 2008

Well, just weeks after announcing that all my conlang language machines are back on-line, I’ve had to take one down.  My Dialect Maker seems to be a CPU hog on the server.  Also, in spite of coding it so that it should only run one instance at a time, it somehow got two loaded on [...]

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