yWriter has long been my weapon of choice. It’s lightweight, straightforward and has a host of additional features. It’s one of the better author tools out there. But on Linux and running on Mono it’s buggy as hell.
So, for one story, i’ll be giving LyX a go. Read the rest of this entry »
Heh, it’s Ruthy’s old laptop. She got a new one for Christmas and I now have my mitts on her old Compaq Presario V5000. Which now has Ubuntu 10.10 powering it… 
I realised today that I get hits on my site to this post, and I realised I don’t use yWriter in the same way any more. Currently I’m running it within a Virtualbox session running an old copy of Windows XP I had kicking around, gathering dust.
Well, it’s been a busy week with work and home stuff. Loads to do in the office with the audited accounts coming in and at home I’ve been doing more prep for the arrival of baby. All very excited for that.
mrBen was here this evening and we were discussing the whole podcasting/audiobook thing.
Actually, that’s not strictly true. We already had that conversation and had moved on to fixing up some microphones and seeing what it actually sounded like. We recorded my telling of a story and although I’m more used to it now, I thought I sounded like a wet fart escaping from a bag.
Ages ago I had installed yWriter on a previous Windows XP session and used it intermittently. Since my last reinstall of XP I never got around to installing it again.
It’s some kind of online community music/radio thing. You can get a better explanation from the site.
I signed up for it, downloaded the media player and the plugin for Winamp and settled down to some new music.
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