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Lester Smith works days as a writer & technologist for Sebranek Inc., an educational publisher in Wisconsin. In his spare time, he designs games, writes poetry & fiction, codes Web stuff, publishes other writers via Popcorn Press, & dreams of being the first Android Poet Laureate of Mars.

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• Read my business-writing posts (and others) on the UpWrite Press blog.

My Other Haunts

• Alliterates Professional authors’ group originating in Lake Geneva, WI, now with members in Seattle and elsewhere
• Halloween Haiku Popcorn Press’s 2011 Halloween poetry & fiction project/contest. Visit the site for submission and contest deadlines.
• Hobby Hearse My online garage sale. (Originally a PHP coding project; now CubeCart.)
• Popcorn Press My micro-publishing house, specializing in remarkable fiction and poetry
• The Hungry Dead The 2010 Halloween project for “zombies, vampires, ghosts, & other dead things that want to eat you.”
• Vampyr Verse The 2009 Halloween poetry book site featuring vampyres!
• When Shadows Rise A horror roleplaying game I’m drafting a chapter at a time online.
• WI Fellowship of Poets Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets

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Goodbye TweetDeck, Hello Twhirl

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

I’ve been a fan of Twitter for some months now. In many ways, it’s taking the place of my MyYahoo page, feeding current news headlines my way, but with updates of what’s up with friends interwoven between, creating an ambient consciousness of the world in which I’m involved. Yesterday, I met a longtime buddy for more »

Ladies & Gents
The Amazing TweetDeck!

Sunday, December 28th, 2008

If you’re a Twitter user, you really owe it to yourself to install TweetDeck. It’s an Adobe Air application that provides a Twitter account display with amazing organization and functionality. Seriously, TweetDeck takes your Twitter experience to a whole new level, saving you time while providing enhanced functionality. The TweetDeck interface provides three columns: the more »

Upgraded to WP 2.7 (RC2)

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

Just installed WordPress 2.7 (Release Candidate Two). The dashboard is sweeeet! I’m drafting this entry in a collapsible “QuickPress” box right in the main interface, and the rest of the page is equally helpful. Impressive overall!

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