http://steveshepard.com/blog Here writes Steve Shepard ... and why not? Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:38:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It is definitely time to tone down the rhetoric. I just received the following email spam from RNC Chairman Michael Steele: Dear , They've done it. Nancy Pelosi and her Democrat minions in the U.S. House -- against the will of the American people -- have "passed" their radical government-run health care ... http://steveshepard.com/blog/2010/03/22/a-bomb-to-send-a-message-tell-me-he-didnt-write-that/ When a company makes a mistake, as Amazon did when it deleted legally purchased copies of 1984 and other works from the Kindles of their customers, the mistake is usually acknowledged (if it is acknowledged) with a luke-warm statement such as We regret that some people took offense to our actions, ... http://steveshepard.com/blog/2009/07/24/apology-accepted/ In the wake of Apple's announcement that Macworld 2009 would be their last year as an exhibitor, I've seen a number of stories to the effect that Apple is "screwing the little guy" by pulling out. As a little guy who is about to exhibit at Macworld for the third ... http://steveshepard.com/blog/2008/12/18/the-grinch-that-stole-macworld/ What if you wrote some software that scoured the internet for content on a specific topic and compiled it into an eBook that you could sell on Amazon? According to an article in today's New York Times , Philip Parker, a management science professor at Insead, a Business School with ... http://steveshepard.com/blog/2008/04/14/computer-generated-books/ Do people really want to cuddle up with a piece of technology? No, I don't mean it like that. I'm talking about Kindle, the wireless reading device from Amazon. The prevailing wisdom is that for an e-reader to succeed, it will have to make people want to "cuddle up" with ... http://steveshepard.com/blog/2008/03/27/kindle-me-this/ Use ye software while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying: And this same license that smiles to-day To-morrow will be dying.Shortly after the ball made its way down the pole to ring in the new year (well, shortly after the time-delayed broadcast of the event aired--the West Coast always gets ... http://steveshepard.com/blog/2008/01/01/y2k8-to-the-developers-to-make-much-of-time/ The countdown to Script Frenzy is almost over. You can feel the excitement in the air ... Well can't you? What? What is Script Frenzy? Oh! It is a month-long screenwriting event is sponsored by the same folks who organize National Novel Writing Month. And if NaNoWriMo (as it is ... http://steveshepard.com/blog/2007/05/29/in-the-frenzy/ I'm delighted to announce that Storyist 1.2 is out, and just in time for Script Frenzy. Version 1.2 supports screenwriting and includes a new screenplay template as well as some screenplay-specific power features. It also includes much improved header and footer support and support for mirrored pages. Take it for ... http://steveshepard.com/blog/2007/05/27/storyist-12-is-out/ December is here, which means that NaNoWriMo is now officially behind us. As NaNoWriMo Director Chris Baty (shown here raising a toast to NaNoWriMo participants at the TGIO Party) put it Shoot…Does it really have to be over.This was my first year participating in the event, and I have to ... http://steveshepard.com/blog/2006/12/02/nanowrimo-kudos/ I generally think FedEx does a great job, but a recent experience left me scratching my head. I ordered something online and paid for express shipping. The package left Oregon on Saturday, arrived in Tennessee on Sunday morning, in Oakland Sunday evening, and in my home town early Monday morning. There it ... http://steveshepard.com/blog/2006/11/20/fedex-to-the-world-on-time-and-not-a-minute-sooner/