<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="0.92">
<channel>
	<title>Musings and Diatribes</title>
	<link>http://pwfox.com/blog</link>
	<description>Thoughts on writing and story and world events</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:54:10 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs>
	<language>en</language>
	<!-- generator="WordPress/3.1.2" -->

	<item>
		<title>Book out at last</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The poetry book, Seasons of the Mind, 2nd Edition by Wayne Howard, is now out and available at Lulu and at Amazon.  Only the marketing is left.  Now I can concentrate on editing the novella, Sea-change.  It should be available before the end of the year.  Writing continues on Starcrossed Legacy, but I think it will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pwfox.com/blog/2011/07/14/book-out-at-last/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Are some banks too big to succeed?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mortgage applications on the west coast that dissappear into a "black hole" in a state more than a thousand miles  away ]]></description>
		<link>http://pwfox.com/blog/2010/08/31/are-some-banks-too-big-to-succeed/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Did BP fail to account for overpressured sand?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[blowout preventers that failed in the BP Gulf of Mexico oil disaster might have been insufficiently robust for an unexpected overpressured sand horizon]]></description>
		<link>http://pwfox.com/blog/2010/05/23/did-bp-fail-to-account-for-overpressured-sand/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Iceland and greenhouse gasses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The recent volcanic eruptions in Iceland have pointed up just how critical getting a handle on greenhouse emissions is. Typically volcanos inject large amounts of CO2 and other gasses into the atmosphere during eruptions, sometimes dwarfing the rather puny efforts made thus far to reduce the man-made contribution. The really scary part is the large [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pwfox.com/blog/2010/04/16/iceland-and-greenhouse-gasses/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Blogging for money&#8211;a boon or a trap?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Due to the economy and the need to generate money quickly, I turned to blogging for money by writing regularly on green business matters in the Portland area. The problem with this sort of sideline is that is pays very little considering the amount of work that goes into preparing each article. There is the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pwfox.com/blog/2009/11/12/blogging-for-money-a-boon-or-a-trap/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Green Primrose Paths</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that green is &#8220;in&#8221; and everyone wants to do it and be a part of the revolution, the hucksters are out in force blasting us with information that can best be described as &#8220;the good, the bad and the ugly.&#8221; The good thing about the internet is that it provides us with access to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pwfox.com/blog/2009/09/29/green-primrose-paths/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Writers&#8217; conferences</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just returned from a three day marathon of pitching, networking and attending workshops at the Willamette Writers annual conference. The pitches were moderately successful even though I had to pitch from the seat of my pants because the agents that were taking what I was prepared to pitch were not available (I registered rather [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pwfox.com/blog/2009/08/12/writers-conferences/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Roaming Robots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just completed a story on Examiner.com about a project to produce (under government sponsership) an autonomously ranging robot with sponsorship of the U. S. military, which refuels itself by foraging for suitable burnable materials. My take was that the proposed application is some sort of a mobile recon platform that doesn&#8217;t require the presense [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pwfox.com/blog/2009/07/10/roaming-robots/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Magnatude Nine-plus Earthquakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hear a lot, off and on, about the expected magnitude nine-plus earthquake that is likely to happen sometime in the geological near future of the coast of Oregon. Such a quake and the resulting tsunami has all the makings of a disaster movie or book, and I&#8217;m now in the process of doingsome preliminary [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pwfox.com/blog/2009/06/01/magnatude-nine-plus-earthquakes/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Writing for Examiner.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve now been writing for Examiner.com for about a month and am just now feeling like Im beginning to get a handle on time management. There is the necessity to do research finding stories and checking them out as well as the actual writing. Then there is the marketing piece, i.e. getting the word out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pwfox.com/blog/2009/05/29/writing-for-examinercom/</link>
			</item>
</channel>
</rss>

<!-- Dynamic Page Served (once) in 0.321 seconds -->

