HOW TO WRITE — Medium
Fifty pieces like this appear on the internet every week. About them all I have just one question: What if what people who are struggling to write need isn’t advice?
A Ukrainian man who claimed responsibility for organizing a campaign to send heroin to my home last summer has been arrested in Italy on suspicion of trafficking in stolen credit card accounts, among other things, KrebsOnSecurity.com has learned.Last summer, appropos of nothing, an infamous cybercrook known as “Fly,” “Flycracker” and “Muxacc” began sending me profane and taunting tweets. On top of this, he posted my credit report on his blog and changed his Twitter profile picture to an image of an action figure holding up my severed head.
[gallery] robertogreco:
“Skull with clock eyes at La Calaca Festival (photograph by Reka Nyari)” (via “Celebrating Life While There’s Still Time: Halloween Meets Mexico’s Days of the Dead”
[gallery] A-minus?? There’s not a mark on it! What are you counting off for?? I’m complaining to the Dean.
On this Reformation Day, it is good to remember that Martin Luther belongs to the entire church, not only to Lutherans and Protestants, just as Thomas Aquinas is a treasury of Christian wisdom for faithful believers of all denominations, not simply for Dominicans and Catholics. This point was recognized not long ago by Franz-Josef Hermann Bode, the Catholic Bishop of Osnabrück in northern Germany, when he preached on Luther at an ecumenical service. “It’s fascinating,” he said, “just how radically Luther puts God at the center.”Luther taught that every human being at every moment of life stands absolutely coram deo, before God, confronted face-to-face by God. This led him to confront the major misunderstanding in the church of his day that grace and forgiveness of sins could be bought and sold like wares in the market. “The focus on Christ, the Bible and the authentic Word are things that we as the Catholic Church today can only underline,” Bode said. The bishop’s views reflect the ideas of many other Catholic theologians since the Second Vatican Council as Luther’s teachings, especially his esteem for the Word of God, have come to be appreciated in a way that would have been unthinkable just a century ago.
a message I just wrote to Dropbox
Just a few days ago I upgraded my Dropbox account and added additional files and folders to the Dropbox folder. Since then no syncing has actually taken place: instead I have been stuck at the “downloading file list” stage.
I have
- quit and restarted Dropbox
- unlinked the computer and then re-linked it
- deleted and then reinstalled the Dropbox app
Nothing has worked, though the Dropbox app continually uses more than 100% CPU, overheating my computer and making other tasks much more difficult.
I am not willing (nor should I be expected) to spend any more time with this. Please refund my money and take me back to a free account.
Let me be clear: please do not give me recommendations of what to try to fix the problem. I have done everything that can be done, following the instructions on your website. A refund is the only acceptable answer to this message.
Thanks very much —
Alan J
UPDATE: A prompt reply from Dropbox: “Although our pricing terms state that we cannot provide refunds, we were able to make an exception in this case.”
Yes, there is a traditional gamer lifestyle. God ordained that it’s one man, one joystick. Read your Bible folks, it’s right there… in Sega Genesis.
[gallery] Little River Canyon, Alabama
