Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Fri, Jul 21 2006
Pelham, New York has a cat burglar
Is Willy suffering from OC? Kleptomania? How on earth did Willy get so fascinated with garden gloves? And then there's that whole thing of following the mail carrier around. Do you suppose Willy's hoping to intercept the latest delivery of seed and garden supply catalogs?
posted at: 08:49 | category: /Playing | link to this entry
Is Willy suffering from OC? Kleptomania? How on earth did Willy get so fascinated with garden gloves? And then there's that whole thing of following the mail carrier around. Do you suppose Willy's hoping to intercept the latest delivery of seed and garden supply catalogs?
posted at: 08:49 | category: /Playing | link to this entry
Shady domain name activities afoot?
Techdirt's posting mentioning Chesterton Holdings points to the fact that, just as legitimate business can be compromised in the brick-and-mortar world, it can be perverted in the online world if there is anyone out there bent on being a stinker.
Those of us who write stories or other material often keep our ideas secret until we're ready to put them out there for the world to see. Unlike story titles, which can be duplicated in others' works, a .com domain name has to be one-of-a kind. If anyone doing research on a domain name's availability is making the name vulnerable by having others see what they typed, we have a definite moral, if not legal, battleground coming up. It's issues like these that make me think legislators will be more and more inclined to try to regulate the internet (at least from a US standpoint) and all that goes with it. If people don't choose to play nicely with one another now we'll all probably pay for it later. Inexpensive, easy domain registration may be something we all look fondly back on in the not-too-distant future.
posted at: 07:05 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
Techdirt's posting mentioning Chesterton Holdings points to the fact that, just as legitimate business can be compromised in the brick-and-mortar world, it can be perverted in the online world if there is anyone out there bent on being a stinker.
Those of us who write stories or other material often keep our ideas secret until we're ready to put them out there for the world to see. Unlike story titles, which can be duplicated in others' works, a .com domain name has to be one-of-a kind. If anyone doing research on a domain name's availability is making the name vulnerable by having others see what they typed, we have a definite moral, if not legal, battleground coming up. It's issues like these that make me think legislators will be more and more inclined to try to regulate the internet (at least from a US standpoint) and all that goes with it. If people don't choose to play nicely with one another now we'll all probably pay for it later. Inexpensive, easy domain registration may be something we all look fondly back on in the not-too-distant future.
posted at: 07:05 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
