I’m always writing little programs to make my life easier. One of the handiest I’ve created is called AutoText. This small (only 32K!) app sits in your system tray and, when you double-click it, sends a text string to whichever application has the focus. There’s no documentation or help; it’s pretty simple. Right-click the icon
Software Design has been on the ‘net for several years. Gregory Braun has written many great little apps for Windows and I highly recommend them. They’re all try-before-you-buy but are full-featured, too. FontShow is great and I have the Time Synchronization program set to run daily.
The Windows Registry Guide is full of registry tweaks, tricks, and hacks to optimize, enhance, and secure Microsoft Windows. This is really a wonderful site. There are dozens of mini-tutorials to make Windows do all sorts of nifty things. I really like this place.
Florida is simply looking like the best team in the country … and ESPN.com’s Bowl Projections page is predicting a Miami / Florida match-up at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena!
The Hemingway Days Festival is held every year in Key West, Florida. This web site has all sorts of information about the celebration, as well as links to the Short Story competition and the Hemingway Look-a-Like Society.
An essay on “Hills Like White Elephants” by Genia Stevens
An essay on “Hills Like White Elephants” by Marga Mansilla Olmos
Death of the Author, an essay on “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” by Tomasz Renkiel
On Hemingway’s use of animals as symbolism
An essay on “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” by David Gagne
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A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.
You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.