Section 51 Bye-bye Joomla!

Talon — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 02:02:15 +0000

Wow. Joomla! sucks. It’s very, very, very, very complicated to use, and for what it puts out, it’s certainly not worth the effort I had put into it a few months back. (It was so much trouble I decided against writing in the blog instead of dealing with it.) Fortunately, getting content out of Joomla! [...]

Starting Over

Talon — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:51:03 +0000

The ending of “The Empty City” has long bothered me. It’s just, well, a stretch. Too fast. Too unbelievable. Really, not that good. And while I thought about what to do about it, I realized something else: I just don’t like the whole story. Of course, it’s my first fiction work, and I accept the [...]

New Year’s Update

Talon — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:51:39 +0000

I guess it’s been a little while since I blogged, huh? Well, part of it is the holidays and some other busyness in my other life, so I haven’t had a whole lot of time to sit down and write or edit. But, I just completed a day and a half of writing (yes, even [...]

Joomla!, anyone?

Talon — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:59:26 +0000

I realized the other day that it’s kind of silly maintaining a WordPress blog and a hand-coded HTML Web site for Section 51 (yup, folks, that was hand-coded). I mean, just yesterday I redesigned the main section51hq.com site using Photoshop Elements, Taco HTML Edit and (eek!) tables, only to discover I didn’t know enough HTML [...]

When does a hobby become an obsession?

Talon — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:19:18 +0000

Okay, for working on my own for Section 51, I have quite a bit going on: Novel 1 (“The Empty City”) – now on a second revision/rewrite Short Story 1 (“Salazar”) – on a bit of a break before editing Novel 2 (unnamed) – a few chapters into the first writing Music – a few [...]