12 members away from 1000

by | Jun 30, 2010 | Journal

…we’re headed for our first thousand members. Thank you all. Those of you who’ve been lurking a while, hey, we don’t send you spam or sell lists or even put up ads. You’re welcome to join us!

Getting Closed Circle file to an Iphone…

by | Jun 29, 2010 | Journal

we have an inquiry on CC. We assume that you first download a file to your computer and use a USB cord to port it to your Iphone. But we’re not sure. So could somebody who uses an Iphone outline the steps for us and tell us what format the Iphone...

We have the water feature running…

by | Jun 29, 2010 | Journal

This is the front yard, mind. Only 2 trips to the hardware store after a) more hose: they only gave us half enough b) a hose-to-pipe threading adapter. We already had: the fountain body, a 2-step hole, a 1 inch hose barb (we keep a marine tank: we have a whole drawer...

Closed Circle is soon to break out in new books…

by | Jun 28, 2010 | Journal

While I’ve been busy getting Bren into trouble, Jane and Lynn have been working hard on book conversions, and Lynn has her latest cover (her own work) up on her site. Very soon now, they will be putting up books. Jane is close. Lynn is close. Just a heads-up....

What it takes to prep an e-book…

by | Jun 25, 2010 | Journal

Just an explanation why it takes us so very long to get things out… First: the book has to be re-read to make sure the in-print copyeditors didn’t do anything creative, and that it is the best we can do. Second: the book has to be gone over line by line...

We have now made the annual canoe trip safely!

by | Jun 19, 2010 | Journal

…and dry, this time, both Jane and myself. Several of our friends tackled really big fears of water and an oversetting, but no one drowned, no one was hurt, and the only casualty was a pair of glasses (not mine or Jane’s). OSGuy, who was stern paddle in my...

let's talk about this wiki thing…

by | Jun 17, 2010 | Journal

It boils down to “really good idea”—but I haven’t the time or the braincells to spare to run the thing. I’d have to learn php, apparently, for which I have zip aptitude: it took me a while to learn basic html, and that’s in English....