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Sent from my Android phone [12/26/10]

I hope everyone had a merry Christmas. I'm typing this on my new HTC G2 which means, yes, your humble webmaster has joined the smartphone revolution. As I name all my computers after their processor speeds (EG750 = laptop, EG2400 = main desktop), this mini-computer-which-also-does-phone-stuff shall officially be the EG800.

This phone is essentially a replacement for my failing PDA, out of service since February. Moreso than the old Sharp Wizard, though, this thing is expandable. As I'd commented on the BT2010 Page , Google Maps would've come in handy. Now I got it. Mwu ha ha ha ha ha...

I'm still browsing for what apps I should install in this thing. "Angry Birds" is a popular game suggestion. I'm also aiming to use it as an e-book reader, which will help me test new releases of Caffeine .

Lest you think otherwise, money is still tight. *darn college loans* There's a reason I got this so close to Christmas. I also got a cheap data plan, because Wi-Fi grows on trees and money doesn't. :)

Typing all that on a tiny keyboard was hard. I think I'll stick to the laptop for typing novels.

November Traffic: Wow! [12/01/10]

The downloads of my novel, Caffeine, have jumped up impressively this month. In fact, about 44% of all downloads on egrabow.com have been in the past month. I've been finding more places to list the book and thinking of ways to tweak the Caffeine page ; with the Lord's blessing, it seems I did something right. I'm also hoping that word-of-mouth is picking up.

Since October 8, 2009, Caffeine has been viewed or downloaded over 6,200 times. Some surprises: egrabow.com has surged ahead of Manybooks as the top source (most of the e-book listings link to my page, or directly to the .pdf file), and Caffeine has even displaced Wake Up! Pro  as this website's top download. On Manybooks, Caffeine  is almost in the top 10% of its 29,000 e-books (still a big crowd). Google Books , though I love its tracking tools, has had disappointing traffic. Scribd, though promising, is a website that needs to be fixed. Someone has re-posted the Novel Format there (legal under its license) twice... maybe because the existing copy  wasn't showing up in the site's search results. I'm glad someone there knows how to make it work.

I'm still unsure about Caffeine's availability on Kindles and smartphones. If anyone can help with that, please let me know .

As I inch closer to print publication, these numbers are certainly encouraging. Of course, 6,200 views/downloads wouldn't necessarily translate to 6,200 sales, or even 6,200 readers. Google, Scribd, and this site's chapter 1 preview are counted as "views," which are easily inflated (especially on Scribd): someone who doesn't read the entire book in one sitting (everyone) will be counted each time they come back to read more, so a chapter-a-day reader on Scribd will be counted 17 times :) Manybooks, the Internet Archive, and egrabow.com, on the other hand, are downloads: a more reliable, and still impressive, number.

Since January, I've been running ads on Google for the book, using the money I didn't spend printing and mailing to all those literary agents who represent Christian Science Fiction (I budgeted for 40 and found 1). This money has now been spent and the ads have been stopped, so we'll see how effective they were. November's numbers may cool off in December, but with your prayers and assistance they can stay there or continue upward. Tell your friends about the book and post about it on websites, upload the whole thing to where people will see it (as long as it's free).

Oh yeah, and write reviews. Manybooks and Google would be the best places (Google requires an account). Goodreads has a listing for Caffeine now, which I'm trying to improve, so you're welcome to post there as well.

Stay tuned for updates.

Trip pictures posted [10/25/10]

Link to Blacktop Classic 2010

I've also reposted last year's Blacktop Classic 2009

10 Years Behind the Wheel [10/23/10]

October 23, 2000 was the day I passed my road test in Patchogue, NY. The road geek within me rejoiced, and I immediately began exploring places all over the map (by that time, I certainly had many). I no longer had to convince mom and dad to try a different route, or to go somewhere just because it caught my interest. Mini road trips were frequent in late 2000.

I decided to celebrate this tenth anniversary the same way I celebrated that first day: by finding a place I'd never been to before and had no particular reason to visit, then going to see what was there. Now living in Florida, I chose the state of Alabama as my destination because... well... it was there. I mean, it borders my state and everything, how could I never go there? While I was at it, I threw in Mississippi; specifically, Biloxi. This brings my ten-year total to 13 states. I'll be posting more about this trip in a few days. Maps and everything.

My love for the roads still goes strong after all these miles: over 100,000 spanning three cars. I never stopped considering the ability to drive as a privilege (rather than a right), and I think I kept the clean record to prove it (no one's counting speeding tickets, right?).

The nature of my road trips is changing, becoming shorter for the moment due to budget concerns. I now have a goal to visit every county seat in the state of Florida, this will probably be met in a couple of years. When the money is better, I'm hoping to drive to Canada.

To another 10 years exploring!

That Day is here [09/30/10]

Today marks one year since I finished the final draft of Caffeine . Two weeks later, it was published to egrabow.com and began its spread to other sites. To date, my first novel has been viewed or downloaded over 3,500 times (mostly through ManyBooks), though reviews remain elusive and efforts to find a traditional publisher have stalled. I'll be addressing the latter problem in a few weeks.

Proud of finishing the project, I made September 30th a personal holiday (joining three others). When my book was accused of having the word "that" too many times, and it turned out to be true, I chose to name the literary holiday after that first criticism. Say what you will, but I do have a sense of humor. :D

Please help me commemorate this holiday by nagging your friends to download my book . With your support, the world can have a print version of Caffeine soon, complete with a big red "Now with 40% less That per serving" sticker.

Spilled Ink by any other name... [09/23/10]

I'm now three months into the writing phase of Spilled Ink . I've noted many similarities to and differences from the writing process of Caffeine . Some things are coming easier to me, and some things I feel like I'm learning all over again. The writing got bogged down and I realized there were some weaknesses in the outline (multiple characters filling the same roles, for instance), so Spilled Ink has seen some changes. Among these changes is the title.

This month, I decided to change the working title to "The Day The Rain Came Back." Though I'm not fond of the title being so long or starting with "The" (to be listed as "Day The Rain Came Back, The"), the change better reflects the focus of the story; where the elements that made "Spilled Ink" more appropriate before have now been cut/de-emphasized/changed over the months. DRCB (I'll just start abbreviating it now) is less generic, too; there are already works titled "Spilled Ink." Best of all, I think, is that the new title implies a positive ending to the story. You, dear reader, will need that reassurance.

Lord willing, the page for DRCB will be started soon, its URL moving from "Ink" to "Rain." I'm still deciding what details to leak on it.

And don't forget about my first novel , still looking for a commercial publisher. I appreciate everyone's support and publicity.

Giving up soda (and may the Lord have mercy on my soul) [09/14/10]

Few days have passed in the last 15+ years where I haven't drank a Coca Cola, Mountain Dew, Root Beer, or other soda, with at least one meal. I remember coming home from the store when I was a kid and eagerly opening up the first can. When I moved to Florida, I chose to shop at Winn Dixie because they had the best variety of generic soda (and because my old Waldbaums card worked there). Soda even held influence on my first novel , appropriately titled "Caffeine."

This tradition ends tomorrow (or today, since this post is dated 9/14 in accordance with UTC time). The can pictured on the right will mark the end of my regular soda intake.

Though it doesn't really show, my weight has been an issue for the last several years. In college, my diet was a "train wreck" (as I refer to it now), yet the scale never budged over 230. I barely exercised and drank a lot of soda. As I crossed into my mid-to-late 20s, however, my weight began a steady climb upward. Major improvements to my diet and increases in exercise didn't do much to slow it down, and now (as I feel the symptoms of obesity setting in) I feel it's time to take more drastic measures.

I've decided that the next step is to cut soda entirely, as well as anything with high-fructose corn syrup or artificial sweeteners. This should have some positive side effects:

Acting against me is convenience. Soda and the like are available everywhere, and cheaply. I'll need to have a bigger stockpile of juice at home, and more ways to haul it to work, in the car, etc. I'll also be increasing my water intake, reminding myself that not everything has to be sweet. When all else fails, at least I'll still have relatively-healthy Wendy's (there are Subway restaurants, too, but I have too many complaints about them).

Well, I'm not saying that I'll never touch a soda again, but people say that once you've been off it a while it tastes too sweet/syrupy and the temptation's gone. I experimented with seltzer to make 'sparkling' fruit soda, and I tried organic sodas, but I think I'll be avoiding these as well. I'm hopeful that I'll be eating less overall, and that the higher cost of non-junk food will be offset.

Now that I've posted this to the internet for all to see, there's more pressure for me to stick to it. Prayers and advice appreciated.

"LDing" to replace "DXing"? [07/30/10]

It's now been two years since I closed the logbook and bid my childhood radio hobby farewell. Though I encounter the occassional pang of nostalgia, I still haven't been tempted to plug in the converter box and start a new ATSC (digital) logbook. AM BCB DXing, shortwave, and VHF/UHF scanning are similarly non-existant. My feelings on this are mixed, because DXing feels like it should belong in the past, but I still haven't filled the activity-gap it left.

Since my writing career (yes, I'm starting to call it that now) was beginning alongside my last active DXing season (spring/summer 2008), and was largely a recreational thing rather than a money thing, I thought that it would fill DXing's role. Now starting my second book, it still hasn't. Another thought related to social networking and internet/website development, which I was expanding myself in at the time. These just didn't end up running along the same lines, though.

The latest idea is an old one from 2004. Six years ago, I began to experience "sleep paralysis," an experience that started about as fun as sleeping on my arm. Researching this, I discovered that SP suggested I was a good candidate for "Lucid Dreaming" (where you can wake yourself up inside a dream and manipulate it). I experimented with it sucessfully for about a year, but it's a lot of work and I have a short attention span, so it didn't last very long after I got lazy :)

Anyway, it occurs to me that lucid dreaming held certain similarities to DXing. It's a fairly geeky thing that doesn't require many supplies to start (but stuff is always optional, of course), where experience helps but success is never automatic (a disappointing DXing season being akin to months with only normal dreams), and where the successes come in unpredictable forms when you least expect them. I even got to keep a logbook, except that they're called "dream journals".

I haven't offically resumed this yet, but am preparing over the next couple of weeks. I've already begun making my sleep schedule more consistent (for other reasons) and this will help. The trick is to stick it out and get my dream recall back up.

Links for those interested:
Wiki page
ld4all Forum

Top Movies List [07/09/10]

As promised on the What I'm Watching Page , this month I've posted my first "All-Time Top 10 Movies" list. As with the TV Shows and Novels, I made a list of what I'd liked and attempted to rank them. The criteria are completely subjective and there are always a few surprises.

The TV List, updated annually since 2006, was updated again for July. I couldn't nominate anything new for the Novels list, so it wasn't updated this year. There were some nominees for the "All-Time Top 30 Songs" list, but that one is so involved I've pulled the procrastination card on it. I just started writing another book, after all... ;-)

Here is my first movies list:

It's pretty much what I'd expected: the character discovers that something is fake about the world they live in and they struggle to break out (or to change it). The Back To The Future trilogy, a long-time favorite sure to show up on the list, brought time travel (and Groundhog Day, a time loop). Titanic is certainly the least "fantastic" storyline on the list, but it's production was impressive. Office Space simply appealed to me as someone who has to work for a living.

Here is the 2010 TV Shows list:

Change from Rank Show Title Release Genre '09 '08 '07 '06 1 Sliders (esp. seasons 1-3) 1995-2000 Science-Fiction         2 Lost 2004-now Sci-Fi Mystery       +1 3 Stargate SG-1 1997-2007 Science-Fiction       -1 4 Haibane Renmei 2002 Anime Fantasy   N     5 Firefly 2002-2003 Space Western +5 N     6 Star Trek: Voyager 1995-2001 Science-Fiction +2 -3     7 Kino's Journey 2003 Anime Adventure -1 +2 +3 N 8 Stargate Atlantis 2004-2009 Science-Fiction -3 -1     9 Touched by an Angel 1994-2003 Family Drama -2 N     10 Star Trek: The Next Generation 1987-1994 Science-Fiction +2 -6 +1 +1 11 Reboot 1994-2001 CGI Adventure -2 -2 -1 -1 12 Serial Experiments Lain 1998 Anime Cyberpunk N       13 Wolf's Rain 2003 Anime Adventure -2 N     14 Day Break 2006 Action Thriller   N     15 Paranoia Agent 2004 Anime Horror-Mystery -2 -2 N  

I fully expected Lost to unseat Sliders from its number one position this season, but it fell short of my (admittedly high) expectations. Time to see if another show is up for the challenge.

Firefly seems to be fondly remembered, I should watch it again soon. Voyager also crawled up the list, though not as high as it originally was. Serial Experiments Lain is the only new show, and Outlaw Star (also Anime) has finally been unseated from its #15 spot.

And finally, here are the nominees for the (now 2011) music list:
Blurry by Puddle of Mudd
Dark Angel Dragnet by Project 86
You're Going Down by Sick Puppies
Liar by Fireflight
Use Somebody by Kings of Leon
Let It Die by Foo Fighters
Letter From A Thief by Chevelle
Cherub Rock by Smashing Pumpkins
Panic Switch by Silversun Pickups
I Alone by Live

Spilled Ink enters writing phase [06/24/10]

Tuesday was the official start of typing. Chapter one is underway, with a total of thirteen planned (that number is subject to change). After briefly considering another idea, I decided to keep "Spilled Ink" as this book's working title. The novel's page on this site will soon be activated, though I doubt I'll start posting progress reports until I'm well into the project.

Already, I feel excited again. Writing my first novel was a rewarding experience that I look forward to repeating. Of course, my work on Caffeine isn't truly done until it's in print and more people have heard of it. I'm still praying regarding a publisher, and I must be careful not to neglect the story I already have written.

Hopefully, by the time this story is done, Caffeine will have paved the way for it to get to the public.

Spilled Ink is on-schedule [06/11/10]

A while back, I set June as the month Spilled Ink would enter its writing phase. In spite of a complete change in its outline last month, I've prayerfully decided to go forward and begin typing my second novel in two weeks.

As of now, I don't plan to give this novel the free-time monopoly Caffeine enjoyed. This is my (extremely tentative) estimated timeline, complete with computer-geek-inspired version numbers:

June 2010: Begin Version 0 of manuscript. (pre-alpha)
June 2011: Begin Version 1. (alpha)
December 2011: Begin Version 2. (official beta)
February 2012: Begin querying publishers.
April 2012: Begin Version 3. (possible release version)

Of course, this is subject to a lot of variables. Spilled Ink's development cycle may be much different from that of Caffeine's, and I'm praying that Caffeine finds a print publisher and a broad readership in the meantime, which would encourage me further in writing this second book.

Rewriting History [05/13/10]

The last page of this website has been updated to version 28, which means I can now delete the old v27 graphics, etc. That page was, appropriately, the Site History Page, which I re-wrote while I was at it and split into two. The first page now covers everything through 2006, and the second goes up to this present day.

Since new versions won't come out annually anymore, the second page doesn't organize the history by year. "Exhibits" have been reduced as well as the personal history which had originally leaked so heavily into the website's histories. The event lists are also gone, replaced by hit totals (site performance) for the years in question.

ManyBooks reaches 1K [05/07/10]

Less than four months after I posted Caffeine to ManyBooks.net , it yesterday saw its 1,000th download there. I pray that the book is a blessing to its readers, and that its popularity continues to pick up. Here's where the novel stands...

ManyBooks: 1,003 downloads; 2 reviews
Scribd: 740 pageviews (inc. Printable); no scribbles
EGrabow HD: 280 downloads (estimated)
Google Books: 162 pages viewed; no reviews
Internet Archive: 23 downloads; no reviews

While I'm eager to see the numbers go up so I can take them to publishers, I'm also looking for reactions. Two reviews, both from the same week in February, are all there is so far. If you've read Caffeine and have opinions about it, I encourage you to post them somewhere. Word of mouth is a powerful thing... and the more my book shows up in search engines, the more online reads it can get. And if you feel Caffeine is worth spending money on (for a print version), throw that out there, too.

Thanks again for everyone's support.

BTS now on YouTube [04/23/10]

My work from college has returned to the internet, via YouTube. Years ago, I took everything except Behind The Static 2 down from egrabow.com because I was getting too close to my bandwidth limits. The remaining video had been available (10 minute version) in RealMedia format, which has since fallen far out of favor with me :)

Last week, I finally decided to attach a Creative Commons license to the videos and release them on YouTube. They look better, are far more accessible, and leave more room on EG's server for all the novels I plan to write. You can also leave comments for the videos, like "You got an A for that?"

Due to YouTube's 10 minute limit, two of the videos need to be broken up before they become available. I should be getting around to that next week. Links:

 Behind the Static (2000)
Unbuilt Roads of Long Island (2003) Not uploaded yet
Behind The Static 2 (2003)
Behind The Static 2: Longer, Creepier, Uncut (2004) Not uploaded yet

Here, by the way, is a link to the new Video Page . A seperate page for EGrabow Media will soon be created.

Work on v28 continues [04/15/10]

I'm back to work on egrabow.com, doing things left undone in January. Hopefully, everything will be finished within a few weeks.

Most of it is small stuff. There's no flashing "TIS Alert" telling you that everything is changing around, because you won't notice half the changes. There are a few though: the DX/Radio pages were completely re-done last week, the Video Page is being built this week (replacing the "Media Page," and linking to the videos on YouTube), and the Site History Page will be split into two and completely redone. Less noticable will be EXIT 9's page , which is still on the old (2007) code and could use an update anyway. In addition to the "Random Page" feature (due to return), the links on EXIT 9 will also be randomizable, which is a feature I've been bugging myself to install for a long time.

Also on the "To Do" list are random page backgrounds, a great feature I carried over from the 2007 code, but my lazy butt only created one set of v28 images. Lame. Very lame.

All this coming slowly but surely. After January's work I began using a lot of new software, so I'm still riding the learning curve. As always, visitor comments about the site are welcome.

Novel #2: Spilled Ink [03/13/10]

Next week I plan to begin the research/outline phase of my second novel, titled Spilled Ink. This will not be a sequel to Caffeine (I decided to leave that as a stand-alone novel) or even be in the same genre, though this story will similarly center around the nature of Christianity and be very mind-bendingly "deep." I have also set a zero-preachiness goal (a common complaint about Christian fiction), Lord help me to meet it.

Caffeine was written over two years, consuming all of my free-time at many points. I'm still working to support Caffeine's non-commerical release, and a print-run is still in the cards, so Spilled Ink won't have all my attention right away; there is also work to be done on this website which I've been putting off. Regardless, I'm glad to be starting on this, because ideas are coming into my head so fast now that I can't even keep them organized. That's a sign that it's time to start.

Writing may begin in June. I have no idea when I'll have something ready for beta-testing. I'll release more details about SLK (the official project code) on egrabow.com as I become more certain of them.

I lost eighty pounds in three weeks... [02/12/10]

...and all I had to do was chop my legs off! Oh, wait. Different kind of weight loss...

Five years ago, with a move from New York to Florida becoming more and more likely, I sorted through everything I owned and tossed/gave away things I didn't need anymore. Such room cleaning went against my pack-rat nature, so the geek within devised a clever scheme to appease it (cue maniacal laughter), which I named "Project FireFolder" after the "Fire" folder on my hard drive.

The scheme went like this: There were stacks and stacks of papers and photos lying around, taking up space, being difficult to organize and heavy to move, such as the class notes I'd recently accumulated over four years in college, and I wasn't ready to part with some of it. I realized that I could scan the documents into my computer, save them into compressed image files (typically grayscale JPEGs), and toss away the paper. You can fit a lot on a CD if you're good with compression, and one CD doesn't weigh nearly as much as all my notes from college did. So, that's what I did in 2004/2005, and I had about sixty pounds less to haul down to Florida months later.

There are no moving plans right now, and certainly not as far as NY -> FL was, but I've been wanting to finish what I started for a long time (2005 was somewhat a rush-job), and now there are more trash bags filled, more giveaways, and another pile of things to scan into the computer, things which will also be thrown out later. I feel so much lighter. Just as long as I don't look at the bathroom scale.

Besides the ability to throw old things away without really losing them, there's another advantage I found over time. Most of my photos (family/vacation/archival, etc.) were scanned but not thrown out in 2005, but they were much easier to access since they were then right on my computer. Over the years, many of these already-scanned pictures were used for web graphics (notably the "25 Years of Ryan G" articles three years ago). Not once in five years have I been compelled to pull out the physical photos. This time around, I'm not keeping them.

So, that's what I've been up to the last few weeks. At the tail end of this project, I will be going through the video archives and re-posting my high school/ college work to this website. There are also a few things leftover from January to work on from this website. That'll probably be next month.

Why I spelled Caffeine with two C's [01/31/10]

This week marked the conclusion of the online release of my novel, Caffeine, a process which began in mid-October and accelerated since the MLP contest ended. Although the original intention was to go the traditional route (agent/ print publisher), the list of people to send to was shorter than I thought, and their rejection letters shorter than I hoped. There's always more to do, of course, a list that never seems to end, filled with writers conferences, networking, rewrites, querying gimmicks, YouTube videos (???), and more waiting for more rejection... Who's paying for this again?... so I could get a few cents and have my book rights tied up. Meanwhile, Christ continues to go underrepresented in Science Fiction, and a perfectly good story collects dust on my bookshelf.

Thanks to the internet, I had the option of going around that, though not without some short-term sacrifice. As I now celebrate the online release of my book, I wish to explain why I proceeded the way I did.

Caffeine's first public release was at egrabow.com/caffeine  on October 8, 2009, under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License, and it has since propagated to other sites due to the efforts of myself and some others. Per the license, those others did not need my permission to post my book on free e-book sites. In this age when copyright laws are getting more encompassing in reaction to internet file-sharing, I've joined the ranks of those who would rather use connectivity to their advantage. No DRMs. No scary warnings against copying. No restrictions on intellectual freedom. Just go ahead and post my stuff wherever people will see it.

Now I know I'm a hippie.

Where do I go from here? Caffeine may be sent to agents/ print publishers again if it earns a following, and I'm keeping that in mind as I monitor Caffeine's progress on the internet, but the circumstances would obviously be different from before. I'm praying about it... We'll see. Offering books for free online actually seems to boost sales of the print versions, so I haven't exactly shot myself in the foot here. Cory Doctorow is an author who's really into this phenomenon .

I spent 2009 wondering what to do with my first book. Now that that's out of the way, I can clean up my hard drive, clear my mind, and focus on book number two. Lord willing, this'll be a long and rewarding writing career.

What is Creative Commons? 
Who uses Creative Commons? 
 
As of this writing, Caffeine is publicly available on:
egrabow.com (novel format, printer-friendly, text-only, HTML/first chapter)
manybooks.net (many, many formats)
Scribd (novel format, printer-friendly)
Internet Archive (many formats)
Google Books (novel format coming soon)

Caffeine in book form[at]. [01/12/10]

Three months after Caffeine's original release , in "Printer Friendly" and "Text Only" versions, it is now available as a proper e-book. For now I'm calling it the "Novel Format." If anyone has a better name, please pass it on.

I originally delayed this version because I didn't know what to do for graphics. I was about to leave on vacation and was unwilling to wait three weeks to get it out on the internet, so since the Printer and Text formats would be simpler to create, I just went ahead with those. By the end of vacation, Caffeine had been entered into Marcher Lord Select's 2009 Premise Contest , so it was delayed again, just to keep complications to a minimum in the event that I won (the preparations for version 28 of this website gleefully snatched up the recovered free time).

Last week, I decided that the simpler Printer-Friendly graphics worked well and ended up adapting them to the Novel Format, for which I selected "B Format" paperback size (5.12" x 7.8"). What ideas I did have for fancy graphics would fall apart, anyway, when I realized that none of the chapter openings, which were each supposed to fit on one page, did.

So, there you go. Caffine's three main formats are posted under the same Creative Commons license , and I will be working on getting them posted wherever free e-books are found. I will also try to port the text-only version to various e-book formats (probably not as many as Cory Doctorow, though ). Please note that, being on a CC license, Caffeine can be ported to anything by anybody, so if I don't post it somewhere you think people would find it, be my guest. (and Thank You)

I thought I was out... they pulled me back in! [01/05/10]

Last month, I deleted my MySpace account due to non-use . Part of that non-use was due to the fact that everyone moved to Facebook. That doesn't mean I intended to switch to Facebook... not until this week, anyway. The number of people I knew/ wanted to know there just went too high.

So, now I have a Facebook. Here's a link (it falls under the NTC header, so there's also a link at the top of this page). Not everything is there yet, and unfortunately parts of the interface are incredibly slow like MySpace's was, but at least there they work after a 20 second wait. The friend finding is also very good, as I was able to send out dozens of requests in a few minutes.

Now, back to working on this website and promoting my book. On Facebook. I guess.

'Dems 'da breaks [01/01/10]

After making it all the way to Phase 4 in the Marcher Lord Select contest , it seems that it wasn't to be. Oh well, it's in God's hands, and always has been.

Thanks to everyone for their support. As before, I encourage everyone who likes the Creative Commons release  to tell others about it, blog/review/mention/etc... I appreciate the word-of-mouth; after all, who can read a book they never heard of?

Welcome to shiny new version 28 [01/01/10]

The tenth major version (numbered 28) of egrabow.com launched at exactly midnight EST, January 1, 2010. This is the biggest change to the website in three years, the result of a good, long look at what worked/ what didn't in EG2007. One last-minute addition was made to version 28's objectives: no more links opening in new windows. The way some browsers treat these is annoying, and I don't want to annoy my visitors. If the link opens in the same window/tab, I trust you come back.

Right?

Okay. Most of the major pages are up. Remember that the URLs are different now, so bookmarks and links may need to be updated. Some pages won't be finished until later this week and some (Exit 9, Wake Up! Pro, and Site History) will require a bit more work to port to version 28. Please pardon our progress.

Finally, Happy New Year.

Related:
Grabow Page
WIW Page
Exit 9 Page

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