Long Posts Coming and Screenwriting Workshop

There will be a Screenwriting Workshop starting this Friday, April 9th, 2010 at 10am and also on Saturday starting at 10am. It’s a match set, a 2-day affair if you will. The workshop will be intro level, starting from zero and working up to a good working knowledge of screenwriting.

Back Up and Running

Ran into a rather catastrophic failure on the database server. Rather than keep on trying to restore from corrupted tables…

Introducing PyGhostscript

For those of you that have been wanting an extension in Python that binds directly to Ghostscript, look no further. A new page is available now for PyGhostscript on my blog!

[Fiction] Friday for February 26, 2010

[Fiction] Friday for February 26, 2010. Prompt: The bag was empty except for a smudged slip of paper which said, “Sorry.”

Blocking Out the Spammers

Country-wide IP blocks on this server have managed to save on bandwidth, headaches, intrusion attempts, and spambots from all over the world. I wish I didn’t have to do it, but the world isn’t fair and we have to protect ourselves from threats like this now.

Concrete Calculators 1.2 Released

Had a few minutes today and updated the Concrete Calculators software. Some usability enhancements and automatic calculation of common bag sizes needed for a job. It’s a fun little pet project for me, one that I hope someone else out there gets some usefulness from.

DIY Film Marketing and Branding with Free Tools

This is for all the indie filmmakers out there experimenting with new outlets for marketing your creations. It used to be that you absolutely had to have a distributor to get your stuff out to markets that would otherwise have been impossible to reach. The Internet has changed a lot of that.

The Cursed on SyFy

After a long wait, The Cursed is now being broadcast on the SyFy Channel. It will premiere on Saturday, February…

One Last ScreenTalk for 2009

This Wednesday will be the last ScreenTalk of 2009. My co-host wanted to do a special devoted to horror and my book.

Formative Events in My Writing Life

There were a few events in my life that I thought I would share with people reading this blog. This is one of those events that shaped my writing mind into what it is today.

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