Christopher Merle http://www.christophermerle.com Que sera, sera, whatever will be, will be, but first I need more coffee. Mon, 14 May 2012 22:49:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 2006-2007 chrislmerle@yahoo.com (Christopher Merle) chrislmerle@yahoo.com (Christopher Merle) http://www.christophermerle.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Christopher Merle http://www.christophermerle.com 144 144 A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. Christopher Merle Christopher Merle chrislmerle@yahoo.com no no K.D. Wentworth http://www.christophermerle.com/blog/2012/04/19/kd-wentworth/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kd-wentworth http://www.christophermerle.com/blog/2012/04/19/kd-wentworth/#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:51:02 +0000 Administrator http://www.christophermerle.com/?p=448 I was sad to learn that author K.D. Wentworth passed away yesterday. Those who knew her called her Kathy.

In 2005 I had heard about this new medium called podcasting from Paul Fischer and wanted to give it a try to help promote Conestoga, our local science fiction convention in Tulsa. Kathy was very supportive of this endeavor and gave the very first interview. We were celebrating the 10th anniversary of Conestoga, Meisha Merlin Publishing, and Yard Dog Press. Alas, Meisha Merlin and Conestoga is no more but Yard Dog Press is still going strong.

I had the archive of all the Conestoga podcasts posted on another site but is now defunct. I’d planned to repost them here but hadn’t gotten around to it yet. But I felt it would be nice to reshare this one.

Here is Elspeth Bloodgood interviewing Kathy for Conestoga. It was recorded in Feb 2006 for the upcoming Conestoga 10 in July of that year.

 

]]> http://www.christophermerle.com/blog/2012/04/19/kd-wentworth/feed/ 0 0:14:23 I was sad to learn that author K.D. Wentworth passed away yesterday. Those who knew her called her Kathy. In 2005 I had heard about this new medium called podcasting from Paul Fischer and wanted to give it a try to help promote Conestoga, our local [...] I was sad to learn that author K.D. Wentworth passed away yesterday. Those who knew her called her Kathy. In 2005 I had heard about this new medium called podcasting from Paul Fischer and wanted to give it a try to help promote Conestoga, our local science fiction convention in Tulsa. Kathy was very supportive of this endeavor and gave the very first interview. We were celebrating the 10th anniversary of Conestoga, Meisha Merlin Publishing, and Yard Dog Press. Alas, Meisha Merlin and Conestoga is no more but Yard Dog Press is still going strong. I had the archive of all the Conestoga podcasts posted on another site but is now defunct. I’d planned to repost them here but hadn’t gotten around to it yet. But I felt it would be nice to reshare this one. Here is Elspeth Bloodgood interviewing Kathy for Conestoga. It was recorded in Feb 2006 for the upcoming Conestoga 10 in July of that year.   General, Sci-Fi chrislmerle@yahoo.com no no Stop SOPA/PIPA http://www.christophermerle.com/blog/2012/01/19/stop-sopapipa/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=stop-sopapipa http://www.christophermerle.com/blog/2012/01/19/stop-sopapipa/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:59:20 +0000 Administrator http://www.christophermerle.com/?p=416 Update—This was originally a page, and I made it my home page yesterday to show my solidarity that SOPA/PIPA need to be stopped. Online piracy is a problem and must be dealt with, but you don’t do it by creating laws that break the Internet and do more harm than good.

The blackout has begun: Wikipedia, Google, WordPress, reddit, and many others.

Click the link below and sign the petition if you want to help
http://fightforthefuture.org/pipa/

 

]]> http://www.christophermerle.com/blog/2012/01/19/stop-sopapipa/feed/ 0 XCloner http://www.christophermerle.com/blog/2012/01/06/xcloner/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=xcloner http://www.christophermerle.com/blog/2012/01/06/xcloner/#comments Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:28:59 +0000 Administrator http://www.christophermerle.com/?p=397 I’ve been using WP-DB-Backup to backup my database for this website, but I’ve always wanted a solution that backs up everything. I think I may have found it in XCloner. It backs up everything and I do mean everything. I have given it an initial test run. Seems to be pretty straightforward. I did get a JSON error at first. Searching the XCloner site suggested I turn compression off. It was off. I did notice that my backup was huge. I found a folder full of podcasts so I excluded that folder, reran it and it went off smoothly.

I’m testing it for a client that also has a WordPress website. The nice thing about XCloner is that you can create a local backup or push it offsite to another server or store in the Cloud (like Amazon’s S3).

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