Category Archives: Writing

SEC Should Takeover the NCAA

The Orlando Sentinel pretty well describes how the Southeastern Conference could take over the Bowl Championship Series and the NCAA.

Link: Howto Pull an All-Nighter

In honor of my all-nighter tonight, I am posting a link to a great howto: How to pull an all-nighter. This is good stuff, I follow most of these tips.

WordPress 2.5

Chrismlindsey.com is now using WordPress 2.5, the latest stable release of the venerable open source blogging software.  The release notification is here, screencast of the new admin panel here, and the download and install information is here.
I really like the new admin panel in WordPress 2.5.  Most used items are placed prominently, while little used [...]

Explaining Twitter

From the awesome guys/gals at Common Craft, Twitter in Plain English:

PS: I love Twitter. If you use Twitter, make sure to let me know and I’ll follow you.

RANT!: Don’t buy Zebra Sarasa pens

RANT!: Don’t Buy Zebra Sarasa Pens

Best Studying and Writing Music

Smack in the middle of finals week, I thought it would be useful to tell the world what I listen to while studying (and writing).
I love DJ Shaggy, and his techno shortwave podcasts are great to listen to while studying. He provides mp3s that are around 2 hours long, and there is a huge [...]

How To: Remove Header From First Page in OpenOffice

I do all of my school papers in OpenOffice.org (for more on OpenOffice, look in Wikipedia) these days, specifically in OpenOffice Writer (the open source equivalent of Microsoft Word). I come upon the same problem fairly frequently, so I am posting my solution here for everyone.
Many paper formatting guidelines call for no header on [...]

Review: Wordpress Complete

Christian over at Unofficial Dreamhost Blog sent me a review copy of WordPress Complete to write a review. He published my review today. The following is my review in its entirety.
I recently received a review copy of WordPress Complete by Hasin Hayder and published by Packt Publishing. The back cover of the book [...]

Use JDarkRoom to Get More Done

My new favorite word processor is one without many features, and in fact, it’s main feature is a mostly blank screen. This word processor is JDarkRoom, which is based upon the WriteRoom tool for Macs.
There is a similar tool for Windows users, DarkRoom, but DarkRoom requires Microsoft’s .NET 2.0 framework. I don’t like [...]

Column in the Red and Black Today

I’m proud to have a column in the Red and Black today, correcting some error’s in a letter yesterday.
A copy of the column is after the jump.