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The Connor Wars EXTRA01 – “Ghost Message”

Here is an extra little something I’ve written for The Connor Wars. The fanfic that picked up where the second season finale of Terminator – The Sarah Connor Chronicles left off.

The Connor Wars Writer’s Room 39 – Flotsam and Jetsam

Again, I don’t really have enough of any one thing for a Writer’s Room. So, here are some housekeeping bits and a few comments.

The Celebrity Twitter Mystique

It’s an amazing phenomenon that happens on Twitter: one celebrity announces that another celebrity is now on Twitter and multitudes quickly flock to follow them. I’m not disparaging or mocking this, as I do it myself with the celebs I’m interested in, but I can’t help but wonder how perceptions form based on this.

Arizona’s Problem Immigration Law

On April 23, 2010, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into law an immigration bill that has drawn both ire and support in the weeks following. It’s certainly opened a can of worms.

Armchair Script Doc: Terminator 3

We watch a movie featuring one of our favorite actors and it simply doesn’t quite work. I find that most of the time the problems can be traced back to the shooting script (not necessarily the script the writer actually intended). The movie I’m taking a look at this time: Terminator 3 – Rise of the Machines.

Toni Pays It Forward, Back

Toni’s a friend of mine. I remember all-too-well her blogs from when Katrina hit. She says let’s help Nashville. That’s good enough …

xkcd: The Race (sort of featuring the Fillion, the Glau, and the Staite)

The brilliance of xkcd cannot be understated, but sometimes creator Randall Munroe can not only reach the mountaintop, but leap above, avoid a pack (a gaggle?) of Reavers, and land on a Browncoat’s fannish heart like a ballerina wearing combat boots. As when, for instance, he paid homage to Firefly.

A Day For New Beginnings

A full day. A family member’s retirement bash combined with saying good-bye to one of the treasured young women in my life.

Beta: Migrate Users From One or More WP Blogs Into WordPress 3.0 Multi-site

Confounded by a seeming lack of ability to accurately migrate users from one or more pre-3.0 WordPress (WP) blogs into a WordPress 3.0 (WP3) blog, I scribbled up some code to take care of the snarky part of the move.

13 Things that Saved Apollo 13 | Universe Today

Not just a list, but thirteen articles focusing on sometimes surprising elements that had to happen for Apollo XIII to be the …

Some Things I Get, Some Things I Don’t Get

Some things in life you like, some you dislike. Some things transcend that in our Venn Diagram of understanding: the things you “get” and the things you “don’t get”.

Satire: Ignore Stephen Baldwin – Restore Joss Whedon

Some things are simply correct in their essence. Mocking this video comparing the woes of Stephen Baldwin to the trials of Job had to be done.

Guenter Wendt, 85, Pad Leader for NASAs Moon Missions, Dies

Not as well known to the public as the astronauts, Herr Wendt was at least as indispensable. SPACE.com — Guenter Wendt, 85, Pad …

The Connor Wars Writer’s Room 38 – Bits and Pieces

I don’t really have enough of any one thing for a Writer’s Room, but I do have lot of little bits. So, here are the bits.

Working on How to Migrate Users Into WordPress 3.0

I hope that WordPress will provide some automation to migrate users from WordPress 2.9.x to WordPress 3.0. Since I don’t want to be caught with my proverbial pants down, I’ve been hacking together a little migration program.