• Do Not Disturb

    Neat! Quiet, I’m sleeping creatively In some hotels, three-dimensional objects petition for privacy in lieu of [do not disturb] signs. Guests at Kinnaird Estate in Perthshire, Scotland, for example, place a teddy bear outside their door; the pecan-colored bear wears a blue knit sweater with a “Do Not Disturb” button. At the Lodge at Torrey…

  • Giving Away 25 Gmail Invitations – Comment To Get One!

    25 Gmail Invitations So you say you still don’t have a Gmail account? You’re still missing out on that 1GB of access-anywhere e-mail storage? Fret no longer, friend! You can have Gmail for the low, low cost of a single comment on this post! Inspired by fellow Weblogs, Inc. blogger Marc Orchant, who just gave…

  • Busy Two Weeks

    Busy, busy, busy. Man, these have been a busy two weeks. What have I been doing with myself, one might ask. Well, I might respond, let me tell you. Here’s the overview (in no particular order); details are below. Revised a book proposal and outline (twice). Spent nearly an entire day–7.5 hours–booking travel. Working on…

  • Validated As A Journalist

    Warning: Babble to follow. Completely by accident I stumbled across this–follow this link, about 1/3 of the way down the page. For me, this is professional validation as a journalist! As, if not the number one, one of Adobe’s top 5 fans, it’s also a personal thrill. I’m so elated! Adobe’s clipping service found my…

  • New Version of InCat, ActiveCatalogs

    TradingBell released today new versions of TradingBell CMS, a catalog creation, management, and publishing solution, and InCat, an Adobe InDesign plug-in for building and managing catalogs within InDesign for either OS X or Windows. The new versions feature an improved data export manager, tigher InDesign integration, a catalog book builder, and book index generation support.

  • QuarkXPress 7: Quark’s Last, Best Hope

    QuarkXPress 7: It alone determines whether the war–and Quark–ends this year. Adobe and Quark are both test-firing their massive 10-megaton DTP missiles. Both will fire in 2005. Adobe’s InDesign 4 projectile intends to kill Quark. Quark’s XPress 7 rocket is only intended to keep Quark alive long enough to keep on fighting. If XPress 7…