I’ll bet you’ve heard this advice more than a few times: Always backup the data on your computer in case of hard drive failure, fried motherboards, or whatever might destroy it all.
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Having gone to college in an era well before the Internet was invented, I never had the option of something as exciting as Western Governors University (WGU), with the many educational advantages they offer as an online university — not just any online university, but one praised and recommended by such sources as “TIME” magazine and NBC Nightly News.
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It just occurred to me that, in my eagerness to bring you frequent “Useful Websites,” there are some fundamental sites for writers that I’m missing. So let me remedy that right now with this one — “EzineArticles.com.”
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Maybe I’m coming late to the parade on this one, but I just ran onto “wikiHow — The How-to-Manual That You Can Edit,” and it looks like a very useful site for writers and researchers. It’s one of those great places like Wikipedia, where you can get caught up and spend hours of your time, if you aren’t careful. Or, maybe that’s just me. One of the best memories of my childhood was reading through five or six volumes called
“Junior Classics” that my parents brought home from a rummage sale when I was a small kid.
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It’s been called the “information Superhighway,” but I’ll bet that most of us barely scratch the surface of information and research tools available online when we do our writing. I invite you to share your favorites with all of us.
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(Editor’s Note: This is another “recycled” post, one of the “golden oldies” of the blog which I’m bringing back to the top of the blog to feature their content again for those who haven’t been around here too long. Enjoy.)
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I don’t know if this guy’s considered in that rarefied group deemed to be “gurus” or not, but I’ll guarantee you his free newsletter is absolutely worth gold to anyone wanting to do an online business of ANY sort.
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This post is for all you “Well-Fed” writers out there — and I hope you’ll take a good look at “The Well-Fed Writer” website I just linked to in this sentence.
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I highly recommend that you take a look at this “Audie L. Murphy Memorial Website,” for a full account of this remarkable man.
As a follow-up on my last post, I felt compelled to direct you to a wealth of information about this remarkable man, who was not just one of my personal favorites in movies I saw as a kid, but more importantly was a true American hero. Personally, I am “anti-war” almost to the point of being a pacifist — ALMOST. But you cannot ignore the atrocities of World War II and the gallantry of this incredible man and the role he played in that war.
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Here’s a quick tip with a valuable link for all you WordPress bloggers out there who may be a little disenchanted with the administration area of the new 2.7 version. Namely, if you’re like me, you find the redesign that put the WP 2.7 navigation stuff in the sidebar instead of the top, horizontal navigation a BIG distraction.
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In keeping with ongoing repetitive stress problems I’ve been having in recent months, I accepted an offer to review a company’s magnetic bracelets and the possible help wearing magnetic bracelets might give to those with everything from arthritis pain to carpal tunnel syndrome.
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I don’t have any great insight for you here. I’ve mentioned in earlier posts that wikipedia.com is a very quick, easy, and useful writing resource.
I bring it up again today because I just realized I’ve consulted the site myself just today something like four times — and it’s only early afternoon here.
I just realized that I’ve mentioned “Writer’s Digest” magazine from time to time in this blog — but I’ve never, as far as I can find, featured their website as one of my “Useful Websites.”
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Okay, I’ll admit up front that I have no personal knowledge of this author or his teaching material. But he sounds good and the website looks good. I just did a “Google” on Randy Ingermanson and everything I found looks 1) very useful, and, 2) just really good.
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We’re in the midst of recovering from an ice storm today. It was terrible yesterday and it isn’t thawing much, so we’re still in danger of power outages. Not the sort of day to bring out the best and most thoughtful side of me. (I worry too much, as my good wife, St. Shirl, would tell you.)
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