Re: Readathons and broken links -- Christopher Ford, Amateur Paranormalist

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Date Posted: 03:10:00 04/21/02 Sun
Author: ApolloXVIII
Subject: Re: Readathons and broken links
In reply to: ~Steve-o 's message, "Re: Readathons and broken links" on 01:48:54 04/20/02 Sat

{Snippedy-Rip}
>>That makes 55 episodes. In 72 hours. And that's after
>>damn near breaking my arm hauling the print-outs back
>>home from the office.
>
>Good God man, don't you know that inanity can be toxic
>at those levels???
>But for anyone else considering attempting this, and
>because several people have asked, I will be
>converting the series over to PDF files for
>handy-dandy printing.

Probably not a bad idea (or at least a printer-friendly version), especially for those who have inkjets. I haven�t tried to print it out on my BJC 5100, but I doubt that it would come out as easy to read as it does on a laser. (That�s why I print it at work; laser + duplexer.) I prefer to read hard copies of anything rather than reading it on screen, simply because I find reflected light easier on the eye than emitted light. However Ford is normally short enough (and has that eye-easing light text on dark background format) for me to read it on screen if I wish. But not 55 episodes of it. It�s also hard to fit the monitor into the bed if you�re using Ford for your bedtime reading. (Memo to self re night terrors; it may be an idea to rethink this policy. 8^> )

>>No wonder I feel like I'm buzzed on Carffee.
>Well, according to the server logs as of the beginning
>of "Necromancer," you're the fourth person to attempt
>that Herculean feat. And, given the fact that the
>other three haven't made themselves known in the forum
>or by Email, I'd welcome your comments.

I think it�s going well. Indeed, I think that Ford at present is running better than a lot of "best seller" commercial stuff. The main reason for this is that unlike some best-seller authors who have turned their work into, for example:
- little more than a soapbox for their own political views (Tom Clancy), or
- some kind of bizarre cathartic virtual group therapy session with their readers (any of Patricia Cornwell�s later works),
the emphasis in Ford is still intensely on story-telling. Which is, after all, the reason that people read the things. I was a touch worried that things were going off the rails at one or two points; like when I THOUGHT that it was going to be revealed that Ford was in fact a zombie; but that was cleared up in short order and I could then see where you were going with it.

{Snip, snip}

>>did you know that all of
>>the links in the "Extra Nonsense" section FAQ, Bios,
>>Links, etc) land on nasty Mr. 404?
>Indeed I was, and this leads me to consider following
>JIM's lead about archiving the "News" section. Last
>week, I spent a few hours diligently trying to avoid
>working on the "Ford Facts" section {Snip}
>Anyhoo, what I ended up doing instead of working on
>that, was redoing the Ford title graphic, as well as
>re-writing the CSS to address a few display issues. I
>haven't gotten around to updating the Extras files
>yet.

Ah yes. I�m experimenting with my first attempt at a web site at the moment, working through the text book as I go. It�s almost as easy to get distracted working on one of those as it is working on an Access application. ("Oooh, cool, lemmie see what happens when I try THIS!. Deadline? Huh? What deadline?")

I look forward to the new version. I shall, however, check out the existing ones as soon as I have a moment since they've probably changed since I was last in this precinct anyway.

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Scary coincidences -- ApolloXVIII, 22:38:43 04/21/02 Sun
- Re: Scary coincidences -- ~Steve-o, 02:45:29 04/22/02 Mon