If you come here from Google and if you met me during my trips, feel free to leave me a message here or e-mail me at: pnb12@aol.com
This goes for Aina Oloffson and Gunilla Erlandsson and a few other women looking for me (don't tell my wife :-))
Aina, we met in Torremolinos in 1973; Gunilla in Paris in 1980.
For a list of all pages on Bookshelved, click here: LocalWiki:action=Index
2141 pages! Mama Mia! Gracious Lord!
For more info on me, see: http://spookydistance.com/cgi-bin/public-wiki.pl?Robert_Abitbol (put http before the //).
Anyone who has anecdotes on anything or travel stories to tell, you are welcome to write them on the wiki the great BenKovitz lets me squat on: http://greenlightwiki/travelstories.
You are welcome to read my little stories based on my life...
http://greenlightwiki.com has other very interesting subjects: psychology, Eleanor Something, improvisation. Check it out!
If you want to use for this wiki the style sheet I was given by a gentleman named Dave AuMueller? of YAWN wiki (if my memory serves me well), please be my guest. Copy it and save it on your hard drive and afterwards go to Preferences on this wiki and indicate where the style sheet is stored on your hard drive et voilą! You will always start Booksheleved with this colorful CSS. Usemod will never have appeared so very colorful!
Well I can't post external links. So please go to Spooky Distance wiki (link below) and look for Starting Points on Homepage.
Or try this:
spookydistance.com/cgi-bin/public-wiki.pl?Starting_Points;Style_Sheet
Add the prefix http: and a couple of / before spookydistance; put a / instead of the ; before Style_Sheet.
Even better: get it here: www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?StyleSheetExamples/DavidAumuellersBlueWhiteRedYellowColors?
(put the usual prefix)
I am a man who has not read a fiction book in years...
But I am also a man who has majored in French literature and discovered he is totally allergic to fiction and totally incapable of writing 2 lines of fiction. :-) In fact, writing fiction totally depresses me... Or it gives me no joy... Some guy said that probably in my brain my imagination is close to the spot where my anxiety lies. Funny interpretation!
The worse years in my life were those when I tried to write a movie script.. While composing sad songs cheers me up... Go figure!
Do many of you get depressed when they have to write fiction?
I keep on my bed-side a great biography on the Beatles, TheLoveYouMake, and I'd like to talk about it.
I am currently writing two books in French and I hope to be published for the first time soon. It's about time! I am 51 years old... (53; 2 years later! Time flies!)
Guess what! These books are non-fiction! No wonder!
-- ar
Hi Robert, welcome here. Don't worry about non-fiction - it makes up the bulk of what I read nowadays. And, I have to change personas for what follows... -- lb
Re. "Interactive Story", please keep in mind the SimpleRules of this Wiki. As far as I can't tell, there isn't a book with that title. -- KillTheUmpire
Indeed, cher Laurent! It was just an attempt at trying to write a story together. As you know I hate to write fiction but maybe it could be more fun if we all tried to write a story together. In fact I could use elements of my own story since I did live this situation. But still if we all put our efforts into it we could get some interesting results. --RobertAbitbol
Robert, I'm enjoying the stuff at InteractiveStorytelling. I would enjoy it more if it can be done within the SimpleRules of Bookshelved. That's why I moved the story back. Can I suggest we put the story on top and set off discussions with horizontal rules, or a section at the bottom? -- SeanO
I don't mind. Whichever way is fine with me. If this can cause any problem, maybe we can move the pages to one of my wiki or to a program I have designed: a sort of database, outliner, wiki. A DOW as I call it.
It sure is fun to write a script with someone else! :-) I have always hated writing fiction but when it is coupled with the act of communication, it sure is definitely fun!
Plus it is in line with my newly acquired view that: (well newly, say I realized that 15 years ago) "a little everyday and everything is completed". Wish I could have made a rhyme with "day".
-- RobertAbitbol''
Thanks for the welcome but I came here a year ago... :-)Any set of rules to look at so I'll know how to name pages? --
TheThirdBook?
Thanks ADE!
---> http://spookydistance.com/cgi-bin/public-wiki.pl?Folder_Politics/Platform_For_The_2008_Election
Come on, come all...
Well the good part is you have to force yourself to do things to have something to write about! :-)
[/Any good non-fiction book to recommend]? [The Best How To Book I Ever Read]?
I think the idea of a category for books on time management is a good idea. If you look at BeyondCategory you'll see that we try to create a category page based on the name of a book. So I would suggest that we find a relatively obscure book that's more or less about time management and use the name of that book as the category for books on time management. My first thought was GettingThingsDone but that's a little too obvious. How about InSearchOfLostTime? --ade
''Excellent idea, Ade! The folder would be called [000 Folder In Search of Lost Time]?. The 000 prefix is intended so that the folder appears at the very beginning of the Index LocalWiki:action=Index. The good thing with this system is that if you click on the title of any page that belongs to that folder, you'll see the link to the [000 Folder In Search of Lost Time]?.''
In fact, Getting things done is less poetic but more to the point. I never liked the word Time Management to describe methods of organization.
''However, this manual folder system might not be a good idea since this site already has categories. So feel free to delete the link on FrontPage (well you have already); and put CategoryInSearchOFLostTime? or CategoryGettingThingsDone? (up to you) in the bottom of each page that belongs to that category. '
Or I can do put category tags on the bottom of every page in this category. Let me know what you think.
Mind you, both systems (forward classifications using folders and backwards classification using categories) can co-exist. But in my experience, wikizens seem to prefer the category system that was invented by the great Stan Silver at C2.com. See: c2.com/cgi.bin/Wiki??StanSilver?. (put the usual prefix)
I am a big fan of forward classification myself but when a site already has a category system, it's better to stick with the category system.
OK Adewale. Done. See: InSearchOfLostTime. Thanks for a great suggestion!
I can be reached at: pnb12ataol.com
I do read books.
Especially non-fiction books.
I realized, to my delight, at the age of 35 that yes indeed one could be a writer of non-fiction.
I probably will write 3 books in all before leaving this earth; perhaps 4 if one is to include my auto-biography.
The love you make a history of the Beatles
-- Robert Abitbol
So far all it is a cop chase of some dope dealers in New-York city. Nothing to write home about. I can't wait to see if the movie is as dumb as the book. :-)
If I knew how dumb that book was, I would have given it # 0 in my inventory! :-)
Changing subjects, I have been racking my brain (or what's left of it after intense overuse through the years:-)) trying to figure out how to port a Dos program in Windows. If there is a good samaritan willing to help a poor programming novice named Abitbol (I have been a novice for close to 20 years :-)), please drop me an e-mail or leave me a message here. Or there or anywhere....
Answer by me a few months of research later: you can use GTK+; it is a GUI library for C programs. The drawback: it is complex and it comes with a few megs of DLLs. I mighy have found something better however: a GUI to be used with a C program. I'll keep you all informed.
Lately I have been reading Readers' Digests in French. The American Readers's Digests I found very boring...
I wonder how these writers can fill 200 pages on Time Management. I have been working on an extremely efficient Time-Management system that can be explained in 5 pages! I started it in 1988! It took me 20 years to develop it!
OK let's admit that I can explain a part of the system -the miscellaneous tasks (the non-repetitious ones)- in 5 pages. But there are also the repetitious tasks. Another 10 pages. An intro: 2 pages.
And I am pretty sure I'll do better in 15 pages than a lot of these writers in 200 pages! (this being said in all modesty).
But hey! What about a 15 page book that can sell for a buck! Not a bad idea!
Imagine paying a buck to become perfectly organized!
This sounds like a great idea! Hey let me find this guy's business card. He works in China. Maybe I could have it printed there!
The saga of my book on Time-Management will be continued some other time.
Forget China. Publish your book at lulu.com.
Not d'accord. Stop patronizing me with the only two words you know in French. You don't seem to want to respect anyone Elizabeth. So what? If a spammer has created a Ben Kovitz page. The minute anyone would write anything on it, it would legitimize it. I wish you could mind your business sometimes Elizabeth without wanting to control each and every wiki you prey on. You should learn how to conjugate the words I mind my own business in all tenses. D'accord? :-) -- Robert Abitbol
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