Who, What, When, Where, Why and How

I have a tub of "white type" miso paste. What are some yummy things I can do with it? - 1 second ago

Working writers: how do you carve out time for fiction? Here's a question for working writers. I've managed to turn my passion into a full-time life as a freelance writer. I do corporate stuff, copywriting and marketing pieces, journalism, and I'm thrilled to be working for myself at something I adore. My real passion, however, is fiction, and like so many others, my real aspiration is to complete and sell the novels that have been niggling at me for years. Trouble is, at the end of the day it's really difficult to transition from non-fiction to fiction and from have-to-I-get-paid to want-to-so-I'm-disciplined work. I find myself using my sore wrists and zonked brain as an excuse...and I'm starting to get scared that I'll never achieve my dream of being a working novelist. I'm wondering how other writers approach this dilemma. Is "suck it up" the only answer, or are there some tips/tidbits/tweaks I'm missing? - 39 minutes ago

Where can I find a copy of Synergetics Dictionary? This was a 4 volume dictionary compiled by E.J. Applewhite of terminology and language used by R. Buckminster Fuller. I believe it was published in the early 1980's. I would like to purchase a copy of it for my own collection. Cannot find it through Amazon. - 71 minutes ago

I need to set up an online test that seems to be different than what many free testing tools or open source modules don't do out of the box. I have been doing some web stuff for my son's PTA and they have a "green" survey they want me to get on the web. There are 50 some odd questions with 3 answers each. On every question, "A" counts 3 points, "B" counts 2 points and "C" counts 1. Parents are to take this test online and then see their score. There should also be a method that reports the score back to the PTA. Ideally it would be a spreadsheet with Name/Student's Name/Teacher's Name/Final Score, but I would settle for an email with that information for each time it is taken. Maybe it's the hour or a frazzled brain at the end of a long week, but I can't seem to get this to work right. I could set this up in Moodle, but we don't want the parents taking the survey to have to register. I have installed LimeSurvey, that doesn't seem to do this sort of scoring automagically. I have a Joomla install for the PTA website, so an extension for Joomla would work too, but I would be happy to install any sort of standalone PHP app. Any suggestions? - 2 hours ago

What options do I have for a good web- (preferred) or desktop(Windows)-based RSS reader that has good options for managing older posts within feeds? I've been using Google Reader as my primary reader for as long as I can remember, but I'm getting fed up with its behaviour around auto-archiving posts after 1 month and not being able to mark older posts as unread. I subscribe to approximately 100 feeds, some that are chatty (dozens of posts a day) and some that are pretty quiet (1 post every 1-2 weeks or less). Every now and then I find a new blog to follow and when I subscribe to it I'd like to easily read previous posts as well. Google Reader retrieves older posts, but doesn't let me mark them as unread. Also, it has the very annoying feature of marking as read anything older than 1 month. This is fine for a chatty feed, but I don't like this behaviour for quieter feeds. I looked into FeedDemon/NewsGator but it seems to also be limited in handling older posts. Are there any options for a decent solution that is more flexible for older posts? - 2 hours ago