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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Kiss Me, Genius Boy is Ben Hourigan's debut novel, and the first of three volumes in the No More Dreams series. Available on the full range of ebook platforms starting at just 99c on Kindle, KMGB is an unforgettable tragi-comic tale of teen romance and obsession. Full details here.About
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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