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Trying out Scribd.com, and getting my print articles online

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

Ok, one down — or “up(loaded),” actually — and four to go… Via the fabulous and easy-to-use Scribd, here’s an online PDF of my March 2008 article, published in FOCUS Magazine, Victorian Fables: Does Victoria have an urban planning blindspot? I’m going to take another day or two to get the others up, alas.  First […]

Articles page updated

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

It took a while, but I just uploaded my February 2008 FOCUS Magazine article, Ditch height restrictions; adopt “good design” prescriptions to my Articles published (etc.) page. Might take a while to download, but it’s up. (Update, 12/17/08: I changed the link for this article to direct readers to Scribd, which is where all my […]

My FOCUS articles online (updated)

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

Slowly but surely, I’m getting there: scanning my FOCUS Magazine articles and converting them into PDFs, which I’m posting to my Articles published in FOCUS Magazine page, link visible at the top of this blog’s header. So far, I have posted November 2006, December 2006, February 2007 through June 2007 (I didn’t have an article […]

Gateway Green (Victoria)

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

I just discovered that the developer of Gateway Green, a new Class A office building that’s going up in Victoria this year, put my December FOCUS article online as a PDF (with the publisher’s and my permission). My article discusses Xane St.Phillips’s living wall design for this building. Go read Not just another brick in […]

Reading ease redux

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Exactly one week ago I posted an entry called Writing for magazines: what level of difficulty? It was about achieving that supposedly magical “grade nine” level of writing (*). Well, I’m a recidivist, I guess …back- (or is that “up-“?) sliding to a more-comfortable-for-me number. I finished my December article for FOCUS Magazine, and here’s […]

Writing for a magazine: what level of difficulty?

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

(see update, bottom of this entry) I’m in the middle of returning to an article for the December issue of FOCUS Magazine, the Victoria monthly for which I’m a regular contributor. My column is called “City Smarts,” and I’m usually limited to 800 words — which is really tough for someone as loquacious as I […]

On a roll…!

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

One more article is up on my Articles published in FOCUS Magazine, Victoria, Canada page, in continuing the project mentioned here and here. This one was easy to convert since there weren’t any illustrations to add (and size). The magazine version has a couple of illustrations, but I chose to publish only my text here. […]

August is up!

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

Another update on my Articles published in FOCUS Magazine page, which means that the August article is now online, too: Biophilic design: taking love to the street, with a “before” and conceptual “after” photo illustration by Robert Randall (local artist and chair of the Downtown Residents Association). Two down, 10 or so to go… later! […]

My FOCUS Magazine articles, online at last (eventually…)!

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

For too long I’ve left my intention to post my monthly FOCUS Magazine articles on the backburner, but this morning I at least took a first step toward figuring out the best way to get them online. What I’ll be doing is converting my Word file submissions (which were published) into PDFs (and adding an […]

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