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About this personal site of Bill Powell (me)

Hi. I write, and I'm alive. Wherever I go, whoever I meet, I often find we have at least one of those in common.

Although I have a few pages here about my professional work, most of this site is my den, which is kind of like a personal wiki that no one else can edit. My typesetting and web development work is over at Wineskin Media.

My mnemonic work, or studies in how to remember anything you want, even entire books, is not yet online. The current wisdom is to launch a complete site with many, many articles, rather than start a blog site with one or two or twenty posts. So you can expect to see this, along with my new book, in Winter 2009.

Why Bill Powell Is Alive? For years I've let this email address amuse and bewilder hapless data entry folk, but it's time I explained that the site name is a reference, perhaps oblique, to Chesterton's Manalive, which is one of my favorite books. In fact, maybe you should just go read it right now, or at least my sample typeset chapter. Or find out how I made it into a game.

What's here? You can read about my adventures in land hunting, organic farming, and permaculture under quest. Oh, and then there's that home birth or two (or three) under family.

If you prefer not to think about chickens as cannibals or what it's like to actually use your pocketknife, fear not, fellow sedentary friend. I haven't done much homesteading in the last couple of years.

For instance, I've been rather occupied with GNU/Linux. You wouldn't guess it from the volume of posts, but that's because it's more fun to play with Linux.

I've also posted a fair bit of my fiction and humor writing here (especially at the portfolio), but most of my current (and better) stuff is still offline while I send it to market. In fact, I originally conceived of this as my work/personal site, but that little slash turns out to cover rather an abyss. If you're interested in professional typesetting, layout, graphic design, and web development services, please consider Wineskin Media for your next click.

And if you don't find enough around here on distributism and other social justice topics, you might enjoy this (now retired) ezine:

Lately, I've been writing instead for the Distributist Review.

And if you're tired of the Internet's collective posturing at veracity, perhaps you'd enjoy a bit of open satire:

Wherever you go next (here!), I hope you have a lovely day.

And if you have any questions, comments, or uproarious tales of derring-do, please let me know.