Category Archives: Website Issues

Easing Away from Daily Posts

Posted on 30 October 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

I’ve managed to post something on this blog almost every day (I think I missed two, perhaps three days) since September 14, 2021, so for about thirteen and a half months. I think for reasons I’ll step back from that … Continue reading →

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Quick Infrastructure Note

Posted on 20 August 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

No substantial post today; the afternoon got away from me, then we had a birthday dinner in Alameda for Y. However I did spend part of the day reformatting and updating the Short fiction reviews page, and will continue with … Continue reading →

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Sfadb.com on Wikipedia

Posted on 16 August 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

I’ve been pondering (by request) the future of Locus (magazine and website) in recent weeks, as well as my sfadb.com site. And in browsing around the web for research today, checking Wikipedia’s entry on Locus Magazine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locus_(magazine)) I saw references … Continue reading →

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Sfadb.com status at its tenth anniversary

Posted on 15 July 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Pretty much every year I status my ongoing projects — in particular sfadb.com, and my personal and family history here on this blog — and think, this year for sure! And every year I do make some progress, but even … Continue reading →

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Infrastructure Notes, March 2021

Posted on 1 March 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

My ongoing project is to reread (or read the first time in some cases), the essential novels and short story collections by the essential science fiction writers of the past 70 or 80 years. I’ve been focusing on the 1950’s … Continue reading →

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Memoirs and Site Updates

Posted on 23 January 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

I’ve updated my Memoirs page with a number of essay posts from the past year, and promoted the whole page to the top level menu. I’ve cleaned up with consistent headers this page and the Family History page. I began … Continue reading →

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Test Post

Posted on 22 July 2020 by Mark R. Kelly

I’m trying to allow comments to posts, but only for two days. I’ve tried this before, and it hasn’t seemed to work. When I allow comments indefinitely, I get thousands of spam emails. The resetting applies only to new posts, … Continue reading →

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Projects

Posted on 12 June 2019 by Mark R. Kelly

Today I spent a couple hours setting up a ‘Projects’ page that is linked in the menu at the top of the site. And I’ll be setting up bibliographic pages for SF and NF to organize links to my posts … Continue reading →

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Sfadb progress toward ultimate Top 100 Lists

Posted on 3 November 2017 by Mark R. Kelly

Over the past two weeks I’ve made much progress on the next stage of my sfadb.com site — the compiling of all awards references and citations references into overall scores and rankings. One product of this effort will be Top … Continue reading →

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Syllabuses and Sfadb.com rankings

Posted on 25 January 2016 by Mark R. Kelly

This op-ed item in Sunday’s New York Times, What a Million Syllabuses Can Teach Us, caught my eye initially because part of my long-range plans for sfadb.com involves continuing to add ‘citation’ and ‘anthology’ references to complement the awards data, … Continue reading →

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