You may have noticed the old Wordpress theme has been replaced (hopefully temporarily) by the default Wordpress theme. What happened was this: Went to update my blog and discovered a problem. When I logged and clicked on a permalink, it loaded and empty white page instead of the blog post I had written. When I was logged in, I could view the page fine. I looked at several things and as far as I could tell everything looked fine. I hadn’t made any significant changes to the blog in... Read Full Story

June has been a bit of a bad month for me. Not a lot of money coming in. Persistant health troubles. Father in and out of the hospital. Red tape and ugly, uncomfortable weather among other little things. As such, I have fallen behind on all my correspondence. When you add the [...] Read Full Story

Written by John Erianne on - Interesting post on Pinoy Copywriter the other day about the distinction between a professional writer and an amateur. My feeling on this is that, while the term “amateur” is often used in a derogatory way (often rightfully so) it’s not always the case that a professional writer is the better writer. Now, don’t misunderstand me, I do think that 99 times out of a hundred the amateur writer is an amateur because he’s not good enou... Read Full Story

Last night, it was raining. I have a dial-up connection at home, and when it rains my Internet service is even worse than usual. I can barely connect if, at all and it’s generally impossible to complete even the smallest task online when this happens. Read Full Story

I’m not sure when it happened. But somewhere along the way, I became kind of useless. I used to be a bit of a night owl. When I was a very young 22 year-old, I could work my shift at the department store, go out after and be up all night and still make it to class the next day. Maybe it’s my age (42) or my past and recent health problems, but I have very few functional hours left in me and even fewer functional days in the week in which to do whatever it is I do. I’m usual... Read Full Story

. . . and that’s about all this day, this week has been worth. I’ve reconciled myself to the fact that my week was a crappy affair. Hassles of over medical insurance and bureaucratic red tape, intermitant computer and Internet problems, fatigue and too much to do and no will to accomplish it. Not to mention the bad weather that seem to come and go and come again like the right kind of wrong woman. On top of that, I weighed myself today and discovered that I hadn’t lost s... Read Full Story

I’m heading off to a graduate writing program in the Fall and I’m shopping for a new computer. You’ve mentioned your laptop on your blog before and I was wondering if I should get a notebook computer or a desktop. What do you think? Read Full Story

Written by John Erianne on - Welcome to the June 8, 2009 edition of the mad editor’s round-up. Mikkal Travvis presents American Christians Approve Of Torture? posted at The Last Days. Ruoall Chapman presents Everything you need to know about how to Make Online Beats posted at Make Online Beats. Fiona Veitch Smith presents Christian Speculative Fiction - a ‘lost’ genre? posted at The Crafty Writer, saying, “Writers of Christian speculative fiction (ie fantasy and sc... Read Full Story

First, allow me to apologize for the quality and infrequency of my posts of late. My only excuse is that I’ve been rather busy with other assignments, obligations and other personal shit and haven’t really had much time to devote to this blog. In addition to judging a poetry contest (my duties on that task were wrapped-up as of yesterday afternoon with a meeting with the other 2 judges), and working on the next issue of 13thWR (that should be published sometime in the next 2 wee... Read Full Story

I’ve used both PCs and Macs and, while the Mac definitely has it charms, they are generally not as easy for the average person to upgrade or repair. A PC needs an upgrade,for the most part all you have to do is go to you neighborhood Walmart and find what you need. With Macs, if you don’t have an Apple Store close by, you are normally dependant on Apple to service your needs. Hell, I don’t even think there is in one around these part that services a Mac! That’s why ... Read Full Story