Web Stew

My wife and I have wanted to work together on a project for a long time. It took as a while to figure out just what that project might be.  Well after many evenings of conversations over some great Cabernet's we came up with the idea of publishing some of her short stories she was working on as a hobby.

We thought the idea of publishing it in serial fashion in weekly installments was a rather "novel" idea. (Pun intended) A lot of the web based fiction or weblit seemed to be very scifi/fantasy/horror based.  My wife writes in closer to a chicklit or literature based style so we are trying to build a readership of people who may not be aware they can read fiction online. This will likely be the biggest problem for the website, attracting the kind of audience that would enjoy her fiction.  Therein lies my challenge, and so far it's one I've been enjoying.

So please if you enjoy fiction or simply want to peek at what where up to.  Please check out The Secret Loft.

I will be hopefully updating later on some of the marekting techniques, programming tricks another bits of information I glean from this project.

I'm not going to tell you what to buy, and I'm not going to tell you how to buy it.  But I am going to tell you where most people make some very bad decisions about computer purchases.

Recently I was in the Market for a laptop.  My son is now 5 years old and he tends to be on the computer a fair bit.  My wife who had little experience with computers before I met her really enjoys her time on the computer now.  It was starting to become a bit of a conflict between them.  So I decided a laptop would probably be the best solution to the problem. Read the rest of this entry »