I want to take a brief pause in my “styles” series to share some thought on how/when I choose to communicate. I'd love to hear your own thoughts in the comments! I'm calling this a “rule,” in that it helps to order my electronic communication life. Phone Calls I am well-known for my general aversion…
Author: Wes Allen
Wes got back in to Role Playing Games during the pandemic and it’s blown up into a wonderful mid-life crisis. He runs the DM Tales YouTube channel and website, GMs two campaigns, and plays online in another with some old friends. His “day job” is a Baptist Pastor in Philadelphia’s Jersey suburbs.
Style Tips – Headings
People love to manually format headings, it seems to be a compulsion. Still, using styles can make word pressing a lot easier.
Get a with the styles, please
Any time I begin to collaborate on documents, I inevitably come up against one of the greatest banes of the desktop publishing world, manually formatted text. This is a particular difficulty with website submissions. In submitted web articles text comes in manually formatted with headers, often with line breaks following to make the text look…
What a way to end Summer
Shortly before I returned from vacation I received an email from my church treasurer. It had some updates on ongoing projects, nothing out of the ordinary. The last line, however, stood out. It said, “I would also like for you to be my guest at the Bruce Springsteen concert on September 2.” Accepting the invitation…
Using Google Voice as a “home” number
Last month we finally “cut the cord” and rid our house of both cable television and home phone service. We still wanted to have a “home” number to give out to business and acquaintances, however, so we set up a Google Voice number and set it to ring the phones of both my wife and…
Cutting Loose
Shortly before we went on vacation, my family “cut the cord.” It's been a long time coming. I haven't wanted a home phone number for years, and have grown tired of feeling like live sports was keeping me hostage. With the arrival of netflix, hulu+, and network web-sites I wanted to break free for a…
