How is it? Do what I say — not what I do?
Posted By ron on September 10, 2007
My bad. In the past couple of weeks, I’ve given a workshop, done an on-line chat session, revised and presentation, and am am getting psyched for my session at Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Colorado Gold Conference. — Yikes, four days from now! A key piece of advice throughout is KEEP YOUR CONTENT FRESH!
So, I sit in the food court of the Venitian Hotel in Las Vegas (overrated by the way, but more on that later), pop open my blog and see that the last post was JUNE 7. Crap!
It should prove to be an interesting week. I’m vacationing — sort of — and visiting relatives, while Moni attends a conference. Tomorrow night, we get to see the Blues Brothers (the REAL Jim Belushi/Dan Ackroyd ones) at a special private concert for 6,000 of Moni’s closest friends 
We fly home later in the week, and it’s Moni’s turn to vacation while I work (tsk,tsk) at Colorado Gold. My presentation is Friday afternoon, in the two-ish timeframe. It’s going to be a blast!
A short digression here. Did you notice that this post is breaking the two spaces after a period rule? That’s the result of a hard lesson and some hours of editing previous posts. It has to do with the character sets being used to populate the database on a lot of web programming, and the support of machine translators and such. Some database character sets will replace the double spaces with either a space and an A with a carat above, or the symbol for the Euro. It can all get pretty ugly. — Take a look at a couple of the Em Gideon posts below that I left intact. – Simple solution, don’t double space after punctuation. A good practice, highly recommended by a lot of people is to do your drafts in a text editor like notepad (or in Word, then SAVED as a text file), then do a global search and replace of (SPACE)(SPACE) with (SPACE) before posting into your blog or content management editor. (I write that last sentence as I, sitting here surrounded by Vegas distractions, type madly, and directly, into my WordPress editor.)
Yeah, the big V. I understand that they don’t WANT you to stay in your room, so the WiFi is in places that sell things. (Not in the casino of course, don’t want instant on-line results on stuff.) But Geez Laweeze. It’s hard to find a hotel anyplace anymore that doesn’t have in-room coffee. Not the big V. They said (for $4) they would deliver a coffee maker to our room. I waited up until after 11 PM last night, it never showed. The rooms are huge, the decor is — decor. Do I feel like I’m really in Venice? Not a chance. Too many dings and beeps from the casino. Oh, well. More from Sin City later. (My mom lives here — I love to rag on the place.)
ttfn,
Ron
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