Philip Brewer
I write science fiction and fantasy stories.
I also write about personal finance and frugality for Wise Bread.
I speak Esperanto, and use it to communicate internationally. Esperantistoj, legu mian esperantan hejmpaĝon.
Personal finance articles (at Wise Bread)- Interesting stuff
Tag Archives: tools
Bruce Schneier removing anti-security features
Security expert Bruce Schneier wrote last week about some changes he was making to his blog to remove some anti-security features. Reading over his list of changes, I was pleased to see that I’d mostly avoided adding anti-security features to … Continue reading
Success at the Bike Project!
Jackie and I made good use of the Bike Project last week. I’m not quite sure how to describe the Bike Project. Let’s try this: It’s a group of people and a collection of tools, using space in the Independent … Continue reading
Open Wireless
Both my brother and the local makerspace’s Brian Duggan shared the link to the EFF’s Why We Need An Open Wireless Movement. Steven, because he’s the only person he knows who actually does run an open access point for his home … Continue reading
Maker fair
Jackie and I spent Saturday morning at the Maker Fair at the Independent Media Center in downtown Urbana. I’m late to the Maker movement. Being very much not handy, I’ve always avoided making things. It’s part of the reason that … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Local, News
Tagged art, fablab, maker, maker fair, meshing networks, tools
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Fingerless glove design
We keep our apartment cool, in the interest of minimizing our contributions to both resource depletion and global warming. Plus, Jackie likes to wear her woollies, which isn’t practical in a warm apartment. The only real downside is that, in … Continue reading
Posted in News, Photography, Process
Tagged art, fiber, fiber arts, fingerless gloves, gloves, knitted, knitting, textile art, textiles, tools, writing
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Safe automatic backups with Scrivener
In a blog post that’s no longer available, David Hewson a described great alternative to keeping manuscript files in your Dropbox (which seems slightly risky, even though there is a local copy as well as one in the cloud) while still … Continue reading
Cool Scrivener feature: show stamps
Tobias Buckell’s recent post on chapters was not only interesting in its own right. It also brought me to Scott Westerfeld’s valuable post on pace charts. Even more cool, though was a tidbit in a comment on that post, with … Continue reading
The Google-free option
Zen Habits has a fresh post up on becoming Google-free. It’s a pretty good look at the key resources that Google provides—Gmail, Google Docs, Google Reader, Google Calendar, Picasa, etc.—and for each one provides Leo’s choice for a replacement, along with … Continue reading