Several Things

Last night we pulled up at an intersection, and I took a look at my favourite barber shop. One customer and the barber stood inside, filling the whole space. The customer, who was larger and taller than the barber, unbuttoned his shirt and removed it, so that he stood in a sleeveless white undershirt. He raised one arm, and the barber shaved his armpit. He raised the other, the barber shaved. The light changed, and we drove away.

As I gird my loins for NaNoWriMo, I've been browsing through the participants' forums. A couple of pieces of free software that they recommend look interesting:

Rough Draft, a word processor for writers. (I've downloaded it, but haven't used it yet.)

The Literary Machine seems pretty nifty -- I'm playing around with it now.

The core of The Literary Machine is a relational database for random information (e.g., research, notes, and archived writing) based on the Borland Database Engine. Information (including sounds, text, and pictures) is stored on electronic note cards marked by keywords that can be combined to form hybrid concepts. The system thus embeds information in a three-dimensional keyword matrix that illuminates the relationships among different items of information stored at different times in different contexts. It thus serves as a textual concept-mapper or concept-tracker and a brainstorming tool... etc.

Moral Stories: As you sow, so shall you reap