Free albums from Amazon

So, I visited Amazon.com this evening to download a free-for-a-limited-time Philip Glass album, which I learned about via Twitter.
To my surprise, I discovered 140 other free MP3 albums on the site. I had no idea.
I’m a big fan of international/roots music, so I was thrilled to find many free albums in this genre. These are [...]

NaNoWriMo: Write a Novel in 30 days

On November 1, National Novel Writing Month kicks off for its tenth year. Entrants (you could be one of them!) commit to completing a 50,000-word novel in one month, completing the effort by midnight on Nov. 30. The rules are simple: start your oeuvre from scratch, meet the the minimum novel length, and submit your [...]

NetNewsWire Alternatives

This week, I decided to seek out alternatives to NetNewsWire, the popular feed reader from NewsGator.
My disenchantment with NetNewsWire began soon after NewsGator updated the app, switching from a private syncing service to Google Reader at the end of August. I didn’t have any trouble migrating my feeds to Google Reader, as some users did. [...]