Joe Poniatowski

10 Universities Offering Free Writing Courses Online — Education-Portal.com
Found this list today on the Educational Portal blog. It’s a great list of free courses for writers. I’m definitely going to be taking some of these college-level writing courses, especially the ones on creative writing, short fiction, and writing for the web.

I’m reading about the President’s “Tax Relief Plan” on a White House’s web site. Don’t get me wrong, I will take and appreciate the money, but let’s not get carried away about the impact it’s going to have.
According to the site:
“Real Tax Relief for Real Families:
When President Bush’s proposal is fully in place, the […]

Helium has a great feature for writers wanting to compete for some extra money. It’s called their Marketplace. Outside publishers ask for specific articles, and offer specific amounts of money for each one. Anyone can write and submit their best article for each requested title. Once the deadline has passed, the […]

I have a new story published on Triond (AuthSpot), with a copy also on Helium. It’s entitled “Poor Old Charlie’s Wake,” and gives a good example of the extents to which my mom, the horse trader, would go to make a living. Here’s an excerpt:
My mother was a horse trader. Not one […]

Use Secure Shell (SSH) to establish safe, encrypted internet connections through a firewall. With this method, you don’t have to open additional ports through your firewall in order to access external email accounts, access usenet newsgroup servers, and multimedia streams, which leaves your internal network more secure. This means you don’t have to worry about […]

I haven’t written in a while, due in a large part to the fact that my family and I took our Christmas vacation in Florida, escaping for a couple of weeks from the Michigan winter. We stayed with my in laws, who own a mobile home in Lakeland in a park for retirees 55 […]