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Heart to Heart Baha’i Site: Year in Review
Heart to Heart HD, the Baha’i teaching site launched last year by Stonehaven Press, is a hit! One year (and 12 days) later, the site’s traffic monitor shows: There were nearly 7000 “unique visitors”. These viewers paid more than 19,000 visits in all. Thus each visitor visited, on average, 2.78 times. Average visits-per-visitor have risen…
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Now Turning Heads: sʍǝɥʇʇɐW ʎɹɐ9
As of today (April 1), I’m changing my name from Gary L. Matthews simply to Gary Matthews. In other words, dropping the middle initial (L). But with a twist — literally: From now on, my name is to be written, typed, spelled, and spoken — UPSIDE DOWN. Like this: sʍǝɥʇʇɐW ʎɹɐ9 Please note, it’s still…
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Owning My Own Name — Part 2
A few weeks ago, I voiced my elation at acquiring the web domain GaryMatthews.com. (This very website, which appeared on 28 January, 2013, one day after the domain became mine.) Since then, I’ve put some effort into designing the site, and figuring out how best to promote it. There’s a huge amount of work. Fortunately,…
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10 MORE Reasons to Choose Weaver II
I’m crazy in love with a WordPress theme called Weaver II. Maybe tomorrow I’ll find a new love. Web fashions are fickle! But I’ve played the field long enough to know that Weaver II is extraordinary. Let me explain: As a web designer, I’m partial to WordPress: It’s simply the easiest way to build a…
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The Next Hacker Onslaught
You already knew the Internet was a dangerous place. But now there’s a new danger — and what’s maddening is that it’s being created (inadvertently) by some of the web’s largest companies. Facebook. Microsoft. Yahoo. Google. Probably others. Those companies are systematically training us to enter our usernames and passwords for their accounts — email,…
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New “Ether” Book from Stonehaven
My book, ‘Abdu’l-Baha, Einstein and Ether, is now available in an expanded, beautifully illustrated second edition. The new paperback, from Stonehaven Press, is 72 pages, perfect-bound, with 8″ by 5″ trim size. It is also the first Stonehaven volume to appear in ebook form: It’s currently available for Nook, iPad, and most other e-reader devices…
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Happy Valentine’s Day
Dear friends and readers, Happy Valentine’s Day to you all. You are one and all loved by at least one very Astonished Tamale! Here’s hoping every one of you also is loved deeply and intensely by someone you love just as much. Speaking of astonishment: We’re pleased to note that for the second year in…
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New Websites
Several long-term projects coming to fruition: Please take a look at the all-new Stonehaven Press website at stonehavenpress.com. This site, the storefront for the publishing company Cheri and I own, has been in the works for a long time. Way overdue, but we haven’t had the time needed to bring it into being. Also its…
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Owning My Own Name
Notice anything different? Probably not. Technically, there isn’t anything different about this website. How could there be? It didn’t even exist till a few days ago. Monday, 28 January 2013, to be exact. So we could say the only real difference is that this site didn’t exist before, and now it does. But what’s really…
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The Proposed AIG Lawsuit
As I write this, AIG — American International Group — is meeting to consider filing a lawsuit against America for… That’s right. For bailing it out. By loaning $182 billion to AIG, back at the start of the Obama administration. Just so you know, here is what The Astonished Tamale! thinks of that: As the…
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The Windows 8 Great Debate
To my stark amazement, I love Windows 8. Let me count the ways. But first — why am I weighing in? Because various tech experts, including two I know, are recommending we skip this latest version of Microsoft’s operating system. At least (the advice goes) we should hold off till we’re forced into it by…
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Where We Left Off
“What’s going on with the Tamale?” Thus inquired my friend Patricia, just last night. As a subscriber to The Astonished Tamale!, she no doubt was puzzled at not having gotten any updates for the past four-and-and-half months. Okay, fasten your seat belts: It was May 8-9 when Zabine Van Ness and I returned to Seattle…