Ma.gnolia: Ma.rk’d This Week
I spend time surfing the web everyday. I admit it. I am not ashamed. Here are the pages I marked this week on Ma.gnolia:
Awesome hosting options >> Harper Reed: Tech, Phones, Yo-yoing and Death Metal
A lot of people ask me how to get a site started. One thing you have to do is find a host. Harper Reed discusses a few different companies…
Anheuser-Busch Agrees to Be Sold for $52 Billion – NYTimes.com
“The sale to the Belgian brewer InBev puts control of the largest U.S. beer maker into a European rival’s hands.”
DWT Grammar Test 1: Take it Now!
“It is time to release another test. This time around you will measure your grammar knowledge and skills. If you have been reading the blog for a while you should have no problems with the 20 questions presented….”
Five Ways to Write Faster
“Whether you need to clear a backlog of emails, write an important document at work, finish a short story, or do your homework, spending hours staring at a blank screen and struggling to come up with words won’t help.”
Nonstandard Usage Detracts from Novel
“The English language can certainly be said to be in flux when college professors write such stuff as: 1. She reached into her carpetbag to her side and found her ever-present notepad. 2. This was the first unsolicited compliment her figure had ever gotten by a young man 3. …” — Interesting. I’m sure that my first drafts are riddled with this sort of thing, but hopefully this stuff gets fixed in editing.
Installing/Updating WordPress with Subversion << WordPress Codex
Oh man. Why wasn’t I doing this all along?!?!