After five and a half years of steadfast and reliable service, I semi-retired The Beast, a 17″ Alienware laptop. I replaced it with…another 17″ Alienware laptop. The Beast served me so well that I decided to go the same route for its replacement. I stuck with the same brand and screen size, picked a model…
Category: digital housekeeping.
Work in progress status update
The edits for SCORPIO are done, and I’ve started work on DESCENT, Palladium Wars #4. My plan is to turn in the draft by the end of July for a release in the first half of next year. I installed a progress bar widget for WordPress, so now you can all follow along as I…
Johanna, please pick up the red courtesy phone
Johanna S., please contact me via email. Your signed copy of CITADEL got returned to me as undeliverable, and I’ll need a good address from you if you still want to claim your giveaway copy. Thanks!
Wiktory
Inbox Zero on all three of my email accounts–a small triumph, but I feel a sense of accomplishment nonetheless. WordPress will remain my only form of public social communication from here on out because it’s non-intrusive, and I can check it on my own schedule without getting bombarded with comment notifications. I’ve enabled blog comments…
Life after FaceTwitStagram
A little over a month ago, I pulled the plug on all my remaining social media accounts and went full-on cold turkey on everything. And by “cold turkey”, I mean that I didn’t leave myself the option of reactivating those accounts. Twitter and Facebook make it intentionally hard to leave the service altogether, for obvious…
Writing and the Internet
I have to come to realize that over the last few years, the Internet has had a profoundly corrosive effect on my professional output and occasionally even my emotional health. This effect has been especially severe in two areas: social media and email, both of which basically constituted my consent to being easily and directly…
facebook, and why i’m tapping out.
I’ve been on Facebook for a long time, but today I’ll be pulling the plug on my account over there. I’ve known for a while that it had become more distraction than useful or fun tool, but today things kind of tipped over for me when one of my real-world writer acquaintances got pissed off…
in the eye of the husband of the eye of the cow.
Comment spam–usually annoying, but occasionally amusing, in a “Cylon hybrid random stream of consciousness babbling” sort of way. Here’s the latest: What i don’t realize is in reality how you are now not really a lot more neatly-preferred than you may be now. You are so intelligent. You recognize therefore considerably when it comes to…
new digs, yo.
First post at the new domain! WOO! This is markokloos.com, which is almost exactly like the old munchkinwrangler.com except with a new address and a snazzier header image (which was designed for me by my friend Erica, who is super-talented and an altogether awesome human being.) Now I just need to have time to add…
housekeeping note.
To keep comment spam down, I’ve set the control panel to require comment approval for your first comment. Once you’ve left a comment and it has been approved, further ones don’t require approval. So if your comment doesn’t show up right away, have patience–I have to manually clear them.