Keith Graham

Flatpress is an old blogging system. It has very few features and will run without any problems on most hosting services. Some hosting companies offer it as an automated installation. Since at 7 years it is very old, I am a little concerned that it has security issues and other bugs, but I took the chance.
I chose Flatpress because WordPress became way too complicated and I needed an old fashioned blog to use like a diary, but without all the headaches. The “themes” that come with Flatpress are all old-fashioned styles with fixed font sized measured in pixels. They look just awful on cell phones so I modified one of the standard themes.
I didn’t like the results that I got, and after some searching I found a “responsive” style theme for Flatpress. The bad thing was that it used a Germanic block font for the headings, but that was easy to fix. It is still using some “pixel” measurements for some elements, but it mostly works. I will continue to tweak it as I find things that annoy me.
I am using it for entries with limited interest to anyone other than myself (like this entry). General interest posts will still go on Facebook.
I will continue looking for simple blogging software, but this is good enough, if not perfect.

I found a folder in my bookmarks called Blogs. It originally had about 50 entries, but after deleting the dead blogs I wound up with about 12.
Many are well known and some I don’t remember, but I will be checking them regularly. Some of these are updated irregularly, and some are not all that interesting. I have another folder with science blogs and another folder with news related sites. I may list them here if this works.
Here they are:
https://www.useit.com/alertbox/
https://boingboing.net/
https://www.kathryncramer.com/wblog/
https://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/
https://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/
https://slashdot.org/
https://mumpsimus.blogspot.com/
https://jalanerwine.blogspot.com/
https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/
https://www.techdirt.com/
https://www.researchbuzz.org/
https://www.contrapositivediary.com/

I received the contract for my story The Tele-Med Murder Case this morning. I signed it and returned it. The anthology will appear sometime this month and I should be getting a free copy.

I received a nice rejection from Interzone today. It turns out the editor wasn’t the real editor and the original editor was going to be doing the slush readings. He encouraged me to try again with the new guy.

My story was acknowledged by Ian at Interzone overnight. He indicated that it might be some time before he could get to it.

Trying to make some kind of use out of the old domain names

I sent Interzone Magazine a short story.
I have only sent stories to Interzone a couple of times over the last 20 years because they usually don’t respond for 6 to 9 months. I would love to sell a story there, though.
Interzone has changed hands and there is a new editor. My hope is that the new editor will be trying to keep ahead of the slush pile and I will get my rejection quickly, perhaps even with a friendly comment.
I’ll try to post here if I get any response (unless I get bored with this site.)