Starting new book club – hard-boiled crime fiction

I starting a new book club for 2011. Hard-boiled crime fiction is the focus. Possible names are

Behind the Eight Ball Book Club Mickey Finn Book Club

Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Jim Thompson, David Goodis, Charles Williams, Elmore Leonard, and James M. Cain are just some of the authors I will be looking at for [...]

Bram Stoker Award reading goal

One of my 2011 goals is to read ALL of the Bram Stoker Award for Novel Winners. While I read the few that I own, I will need to acquire the rest from different sources, mainly online used ones. I do not plan to read the books in any specific order.

The List: Key: BLUE [...]

pages vs post catergories

I finally figured out what I can and can not do with the layout structure. I thought I had always understood the difference between pages and posts. After doing some searching on the structural difference, I read some answers to other’s questions to realize what I was trying to do with pages I need and [...]

Trying different layouts

Layouts I like that I have seen elsewhere have: – Static front page – Right sidebar, one or two columns? – Footer widget area

I will be trying different ones to see if they work for me.

Reading challenge

I recently added a 2011 reading challenge to the Night of the Living Book Club.

I also started a Blogger site for the book club and challenge. http://nightofthelivingbookclub.blogspot.com/

The reading challenge uses the Bram Stoker Awards as inspiration. The main goal is to read one title from every year of the award for novel. I [...]

End Facebook game addiction

Facebook game addiction? Is there such a thing? YES. Doing a quick search in Google I get 9 of the top 10 responses deal with Facebook game addiction. This can be considered just a form of net addiction. Facebook games are major time wasters. Many of the games are identical in form it is just [...]

Removing Movies & TV page

Due to my total lack of progress, I may remove my Movies & TV page. After coming across the ‘WP Movies Ratings’ plugin I thought it would be cool to have a page listing with basic review and rating information on all the movies and TV shows I have watched in the past. I then [...]

Chrome web browser 9.0.597.16 dev

I have been using the Chrome web browser from Google on a Mac for some time. Since version 3.xxx. Also, I have been using the dev version since ver 4 or 5. Now Google chrome is 9.0.597.16 dev. Still working ok for me. When version 9 first came out I had a few, very few, [...]

52 books for 2011

Awhile ago I came across a blog about reading 52 books in 52 weeks. “52 Books in 52 Weeks” is a great idea. This is an achievable goal. This can be very motivating to read more books instead of watch TV.

So my own goal will be my first 2011 resolution. Read at least 52 [...]

iOS 4.2 update

Updated my iPhone 4 and 2G iPod Touch to iOS 4.2. Everything went well, as expected. With my 2G iPod Touch the update took a total of 10 minutes to complete with a 346.8 MB download. The iPhone 4 took a total of 15 minutes with a 624.3 MB download.

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