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The time has come to finally move away from hosting my blog on MSDN. There are a few reasons for this transition but the two main deciding factors were that posting personal posts on a MSDN blog seemed odd (at least to me) and that I already had my own
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Sheesh. Some people are idiots. Some "wannabe" author who decided to go the self-publishing route via Xilbris had sent me a letter about one month ago accusing me of selling counterfit copies of his book on my website. Why? Well because the site listed
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I upload feeds to "base.google.com" which essentially contains a list of all the books I have for sale on www.ParadoxalPress.com . Which is alot of books, probably about 500,000+ titles since most are drop-shipped from the distributor (hey, compressed
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No, nothing twisted. Just still have my splint on my right hand so I almost have to type using a single hand :) Its been a while since i've posted a general update. So I thought today would be as good a day as any... Health Last week has been pretty bad
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Near 1 am, getting tired. So it is indeed time to go to bed. But since I havn't posted in a few days, I thought I would post a quick update. House Life Actually started working more on the house with my wife. Not that we hadn't been doing anything before
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My ex-boss, Steve Lacey, who now works at Google posted an interesting tidbit about VC's (Venture Capitalists). ARTICLE HERE. "So, apparently there’s an event in New England where Venture Capitalists go and ski and entrepreneurs can pitch to them if their
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Using UFS Explorer , I was able to recover about 90% if ny data. Unfortunately, some of it could not be recovered. Two folders just contained way too many files for the program to handle and would run out of memory. I was told by the author that he will
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Still geting a bunch of questions about the HOA and how some of the bills are paid and why some missing. Somewhat earks me condiering i've dropped off the box almost one month ago. Any HOA questions from this point on will be kept siomplr on my end. Just
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Taking advantage of some of my time off, i've started writing out a more formal business plan for Paradoxal Press . From a general business point of view, most of the business plan details (what I want to do, where the business is heading,...) was already
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Some of you may wonder about the new Paradoxal Press online book store. Does this mean that I am moving from publisher to retailer? Hell No! The idea behind the online book store is to provide added value to our customers. Why only buy our books on ParadoxalPress.com
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Is Amazon Biased Against Small Publishers? Seems that dealing with Amazon is hard, or near impossible. I myself do not know if this is the standard with them but as a small publisher, it is near impossible to reach a human being there. I have had several
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Our new title " Practical .NET2 and C#2 " has started to get great reviews by some big names. (and by the way, the 10% off amazon sale on ParadoxalPress.com has been extended indefinetly). The book has amazing breadth of knowledge. I'm very surprised
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I have been invited by Thomson (Course PTR) to conduct a secction at the upcoming Game Developers eXchange 2005 this May 6th. The topic of my talk will be the following: "Shaders for Programmers and Artists: RenderMonkey 101" – Sebastien St-Laurent The
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Also note that I will be a speaker at the following conference... Atlanta, GA; March 15, 2005 -- The Savannah College of Art and Design and Thomson Course Technology present Game Developers eXchange 2005, Friday, May 6, 9 a.m. to 5:15 p.m., at SCAD-Atlanta,
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For those of you who are subscribed to my blog, you may have seen a few of my posts about my will to self-publish my next book. But for those who may not know, having recently published my first book , I have been contemplating a different path for my
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