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OutlantaCon report part 3 sent

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Just sent in the 3rd/final segment of my OutlantaCon writeup for Fantasy Magazine. I had a great time!

Less in recovery mode this Monday AM than usual from conventions. Probably due to the wise decision to not drink or otherwise carouse at this one. Because of how close OutlantaCon’s host hotel was to our house, I even got a reasonable amount of sleep. Hope they continue to have it in northern Atlanta hotels (although not this particular one, as after the rains on Saturday, the main programming room acquired a new “amenity”: running water…sans plumbing pipes).

They’ve already invited me back to reprise my guesthood, which makes it the earliest advance notice/invite I’ve ever received from a convention. Hee! Of course I said “yes!”, so I will absolutely be back next year.

OutLantaCon

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Prepping to head to OutLantaCon. Will be doing a con report for Fantasy Magazine (with J.M. McDermott) and a couple panels.

My schedule:
• Saturday 5/2 10AM: “No Laughing Matter: Writing Humor in Gay Romance” with Keirnan Kelly and Kayelle Allen. Main Programming.
• Saturday 5/2 3PM: “Literature As Activism” with J.M. McDermott and Andy Mangels. Main Programming.

Hope to see folks there!

Why Every Good Web Developer Has a Dev Platform

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Just borked the PHP on my development site; waiting for my host to restart Apache. Sigh. I hate breaking things someone else has to fix.

(Edit:
All fixed! Almost the moment I hit send on my post, I got a note from our hosting peeps saying they’d restarted Apache for me.

Rah and hurray for (all-too-rare) speedy customer service and efficiency! It usually takes me longer trying to remember which email address is associated with our account in order to submit a ticket than it does for them to actually fix what I need them to fix. Although I’d rather if I could simply restart Apache on my own. But they—understandably—have it locked down so only they can manipulate Apache stuffs.)