Month: November 2008

  • Month Six Movie Done. Live. And Here

    I have made the full versions of the How To Think Sideways movies for Month One, Two, Four, Five, and Six publicly available. Month Three is a private discussion between me and my students, and will not be made available. The rest, however, you can now post to your website, download to your iPod, or…

  • I hate all themes

    I hate every WordPress theme I try. All of them. I hated the ones I was using because they were cluttered and ugly, and I hate these because every single one of them has some issue of being ugly, or being difficult to use, or doing idiotic things with font faces. I hate this theme,…

  • New Look, More Help

    I have redone my site’s front page. Take a look at the redone front page here. Does this help you use the site? Does it simplify finding what you were looking for? Does it let you know I have resources available that you did not realize were there? Does it save you time? Is everything…

  • What Could You Do In One Sentence

    Via my friend Brian Cansler, a site that is pure evil if you’re trying to get any work done. But utterly cool. http://onesentence.org Download as PDFPrint Page

  • “Their” reality, and the REAL reality

    Back to global warming, and the following astonishing article. (Thanks to Jim Woosley for the link) The world has never seen such freezing heat I was reading comments on one other article about global warming—in which the sad state of the global warmists increasingly frayed argument was being discussed—and one snarky young thing said, “It…

  • New Writing Diary Theme

    The cluttered look of the old theme was driving me nuts. Got the lesson done a bit early today, found a new theme. This one is clean and not fussy. And earlier today, did a little video for the How To Think Sideways course. My next planned video is a guided tour of HollyLisle.com—just a…

  • The Month 5 How to Think Sideways Movie

    I’m particularly happy with the way this one turned out. And it’s shorter than some of the other ones. So I’ve included the whole thing here. 😀 HowToThinkSideways.com P.S. DO NOT send me e-mails about how great the Atkins diet is. I did Atkins when I was about 24–after I’d had my first kid–for about…