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Monday, August 22nd, 2005
Technical Questions
Monday, August 22nd, 2005 03:50 pm1. Why is Microsoft Word (2002 flavour) so unreliable? Why does it continually corrupt a 100K-word document, pasted in from text format and then marked up with comments, amendments etc? Is it the same problem that causes random annotations to appear when I paste from webmail to Word?
2. Were I to regress to an earlier version, which would you recommend? How much pain will I have to endure to properly uninstall this version?
3. Why, exactly, has Internet Explorer crashed the last three times I've attempted to post this post?
2. Were I to regress to an earlier version, which would you recommend? How much pain will I have to endure to properly uninstall this version?
3. Why, exactly, has Internet Explorer crashed the last three times I've attempted to post this post?
Amazon Shorts
Monday, August 22nd, 2005 09:04 pmHave just read this blog entry about Amazon Shorts -- short fiction and non-fiction, 49c a piece. They have an impressive list so far -- Audrey Niffenegger, Gardner Dozois, Robert Silverberg, Terry Bisson ...
It's not entirely clear how one 'joins', as an author, and whether there are hoops through which one must jump. I've sent them an email asking for details.
Any comments, information, suggestions, Dire Tales? (Though it all seems a bit shiny and new for the latter.)
EDIT: "There is a slight problem with your order ..."
*** We're sorry. We're unable to sell e-books from Amazon.com to customers in the European Union. You can remove these items from your order by clicking Delete above. Please note that most European Union customers may purchase e-books from our international sites. Visit www.amazon.co.uk/e-books or www.amazon.de/e-books for more details. ***
By what definition is 'we are not going to sell you this' a slight problem?
It's not entirely clear how one 'joins', as an author, and whether there are hoops through which one must jump. I've sent them an email asking for details.
Any comments, information, suggestions, Dire Tales? (Though it all seems a bit shiny and new for the latter.)
EDIT: "There is a slight problem with your order ..."
*** We're sorry. We're unable to sell e-books from Amazon.com to customers in the European Union. You can remove these items from your order by clicking Delete above. Please note that most European Union customers may purchase e-books from our international sites. Visit www.amazon.co.uk/e-books or www.amazon.de/e-books for more details. ***
By what definition is 'we are not going to sell you this' a slight problem?
