Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Twitterfeed is dead. Long live...

dlvr.it?  

In advance of the sad day when Twitterfeed shuts down, I'm testing out options.  In addition to buffer.com and dlvr.it, it looks like IFTTT is a possibility.  If this were a fair test and, I would try out all three services and compare and contrast, but I'm just looking for something that is quick and easy, so if this dlvr.it test works out, that's what I'll use.

One positive so far is that it looks like dlvr.it will pull posts from my blog and send to both twitter and facebook.  The "post to FB" feature broke on twitterfeed a while ago, and I've just lived with it only sending to twitter (blogger already does its own automatic send to G+).

So here goes.


Sunday, October 2, 2016

A Night in the Lonesome October

October has begun, along with our traditional month-long family bedtime reading of Roger Zelazny's A Night in the Lonesome October, his last novel, and my favorite of his.  The book is broken into a chapter for each day of the month, which makes it great for doing a chapter a night and following how the story progresses over the course of the month.

The characters in the book are all references to existing character in fiction and life, and while some are obvious, others are not.  Christopher Kovacs has an illuminating essay on this topic, perfect for *after* you've read the book.