One approach is to use the LBDB database package to enable mutt to query the Apple address book directly. That would ordinarily be useful, but doesn't help me when I'm using my non-primary computer. I decided to hack up a perl script that would take Vcards from the address book and export them to Mutt's alias format.

This document is specifically focused on the early stages of working on an Avalon Travel Publishing manuscript, which is traditionally delivered in Word format. Why get your manuscript from the publisher in the first place? Because numerous editorial changes happened to your manuscript in the time since you delivered it, and the only way to begin work on a subsequent version is by getting a copy of the latest and greatest from your publisher. But this document is also a useful tool for anyone who wants to convert a large number of Word documents to Text for any reason.

Arranging the time and place to contemplate, compose, and write is my biggest challenge as a writer these days. Avoiding endless clicking on the Internet is my first challenge, but not the only one: the modern computing environment is a distraction in itself. Fortunately, a growing number of software packages have come on the market to emulate the kerosene-lamp distraction free writing experience I enjoyed in Indonesia (minus the kerosene). This article takes a look at them.

On 21 July 2006 I updated www.therandymon.com from Joomla 1.04 to 1.10. In about the same time period I built a completely new site, http://www.gotonicaragua.com. This article looks at both sites simultaneously because the latter was installed with 1.10.

It wouldn't be stretching the truth too much to say that Copywrite sold me a Macintosh. It's that good. Copywrite was made for the creative writer. It is "missing" things you'd expect from other word processors, like the ability to make tables and so on, but that's not Copywrite's intended audience. Copywrite is for writers, and as creative writing software goes, it has no equal.