A few days ago I signed up for NaNoWriMo (that’s National Novel Writing Month in English). The idea is that during the month of November you produce a 50,000 word novel. I’ve been meaning to have a go at writing fiction for a while now. I’m planning to flesh out an idea that I first… Continue reading Writing Novels
Day: 15 October 2003
New Book
My new book Perl Template Toolkit[1] recently appeared on O’Reilly’s web site. This is one of my favourite parts of the publication process as it proves to the outside world that the book is real. The other parts I really like are when I first get my hands on a copy of the book and… Continue reading New Book
Spammer Scum
I’ve just found another load of spam that had been added as random comments to entries on my blog. I’m sure no-one that reads this really thought that I wanted to promote pre-teen porn sites, but it’s still very annoying. Of course Moveable Type has an IP banning feature and I’ve now banned all of… Continue reading Spammer Scum