Recently I’ve been trying to upload the second draft of my novel, No More Dreams, to Google Docs so that I can edit it there, as well as share it with a select group of friends and fellow writers for feedback. But I can’t do it. The novel is about 180,000 words long—close to half [...]
Well, that’s the last time I go to Mount Gambier! I would link to this story, but that would push its Google PageRank even higher. As it is, I’ve already had my place as the #1 result for “Ben Hourigan” usurped. Given that I tell people “if you’re not the top hit for your own [...]
I had a brief look at the “Leopard preview material”:http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/ on Apple’s website this morning before work (Jobs’ WWDC 2006 keynote started around 3am Australian time), and was disappointed. “Time Machine”:http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/timemachine.html looks gimmicky (and, as someone who already has an automatic back-up mechanism, is not the sort of thing I need), though Apple’s long-overdue multiple-desktop [...]
Ever wanted to convert a PDF to HTML, but didn’t feel like paying for a converter utility? Well, cast aside those thoughts of giving up your cash, because “Gmail”:http://mail.google.com may have the answer… If you have a “Gmail”:http://mail.google.com account, you can follow these simple steps: Mail a PDF to your Gmail address. View the email [...]
I’ve fixed most of the havoc caused by relocating the site, but I’m sure to have missed some garbage text where a few particular unicode characters used to be. More significantly, the site has had a redesign making use of the “K2″:http://www.binarybonsai.org/wordpress/k2 template from “Binary Bonsai”:http://www.binarybonsai.com. It look surprisingly professional now, with a lot of [...]
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Ben Hourigan is an indie novelist, the author of Kiss Me, Genius Boy (2011). He is also the manager of digital operations at a Melbourne design publisher, a freelance writer and editor, and the founder of ebook label hourigan.co.
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