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The story is up to Chapter 7. I like the characters. http://www.nifty.org//nifty/gay/beginnings/mikey-and-the-chickadee/mikey-and-the-chickadee-7 Remember to give the author encouragement.

Chapter 4 has been posted: http://www.nifty.org//nifty/gay/beginnings/mikey-and-the-chickadee/mikey-and-the-chickadee-4 Remember to give the author encouragement.

A very nice, single-shot story at Nifty. Nicely nuanced characters: http://www.nifty.org//nifty/gay/adult-friends/lake-champlain-summer-2012.html

A fresh beginning to what so far is a well-done story. Some nice writing. http://www.nifty.org//nifty/gay/beginnings/mikey-and-the-chickadee/

Cute couple.

Huge, as in huge smile or huge hug.

In yesterday's webcast on Windows 10, Microsoft said it will be using the exact same code in all of its supported environments: laptops/desktops, phones, its tablets and other hand-held devices. I suspect that this consistent coding would have required a reworking of their entire OS's. In other words, Windows 10 should be a lot more than cobbling together disparate pieces of code.

I concur with Hoskins on most of his points. With Windows 8, Microsoft basically ignored desktop users in a misguided view that everyone would instantly be changing to touch screen computing on a telephone. Windows 8.1 was an attempt to fix some of the omissions (and it is worth a free upgrade) including revival of the task bar. From my experience evaluating Windows 10, it appears to have combined the stability of Windows 7 along with the touch-screen capabilities. Plus, unlike Windows 8 and 8.1, it allows all the apps to be run in windows (though I've found and reported a few glitches) alongside any desktop applications that one might be running. For example, Solitaire in Windows 8 and 8.1 had to be run full screen; in Windows 10, it can be run in a separate window that can be resized, plus it can be minimized to the task bar. Actually, I would recommend Windows 10 today over Windows 8 and 8.1 but not yet over Windows 7. One problem with Windows 10 is that new builds, which occur approximately monthly, require a clean installation that takes a couple of hours -- by clean, I mean that document and such files are retained but major programs such as Office and Adobe Photoshop have to be reinstalled. The upcoming build may not require that much in changes, but who knows?

Very finely, poignantly written.

After the first couple of years, the chapters have been posted somewhat slowly but regularly -- two to four chapters a year. Some people are just not founts of stories like you, Cole.

This story has been in process for almost six years, and the author has surprised us after nine months with two new chapters that seem to be close to wrapping up the story. I like it very much. It explores an aspect of a gay relationship that is not often explored. It involves two men who are in a long-term relationship and the son of one of them, who relates equally to two dads. Complex, enjoyable. http://www.nifty.org//nifty/gay/relationships/what-makes-a-family/

Chapter 14 has just been posted. I read few stories in serial form, but this is one of them. Many stories show good word-smithing, but this story shows both that and what I'll call character-smithing: the ability to differentiate characters and make them memorable both from week to week and for the long haul. Each major character -- and there are many -- has quirks, personality traits and so forth that define them and make them alive.

Mark Peters is a good addition to AD.

At Dabeagle.com and elsewhere is A Good Place by the excellent author Mark Peters. Highly recommended: http://dabeagle.com/storymainpages/agp.html

I believe if you go to Control Panel then User Accounts you can change the password. I think you can also just change it to an empty entry -- that is, a carriage return instead of anything in the password-entry box.

Another chapter in this fine story has been posted: http://www.nifty.org//nifty/gay/college/joe-college/joe-college-29

A story that I enjoyed a lot several years ago but not finished is seeing new signs of life with a new chapter and more promised. It's been three years since a posting. The link is: http://www.nifty.org//nifty/gay/adult-friends/the-groupie/ It is also available on Noel Blue's Yahoo Group, NBstories

If you can handle a lot of college-fraternity scene (with lots of binge drinking) -- I can't -- you might like The English Year: http://www.gayauthors.org/story/jwolf/theenglishyear I had to skim many of the middle chapters until about Chapter 23 where the good interpersonal relationships come to fore. The main character is likeable, and his search for a real-love relationship is the enduring part of the story. However, the main character is also the fraternity social chairman, so there is a lot of inner-fraternity workings that, for me, weren't that interesting. But I can see how they might be for others.

Easy as pie.

Despite the creeping commercialism of Black Friday marketing, I find Thanksgiving the finest of holidays. There is no gift-giving, no religious ceremonies to attend, no decorated-tree or dyed-egg accoutrements. It is a time to sit down with family and friends to enjoy each other, eat well, play games, watch football and whatever is relaxing. My parents used to invite all the people they knew who had nowhere else to go, creating a warm and welcoming place for a day. It is a tradition that we maintain.

As one of Cole's editors, I try to make sure where the reader is geographically and within the story. The changing point of views of any story is a reader's and writers's challenge, but Cole's writing is good enough to keep the reader quickly apprised of whose point of view is being represented -- quickly being the operative word. I've seen other stories -- not his -- that are confusing as they change points of view.

The sequel to Marcus McNally's story has begun: http://crvboy.org/stories/mm/s002/c01.html

By the way, for those who don't follow the OS worlds, there will be no Windows 9. Windows 10 looks to be a few months away.

I answered a call from a GA author (to be kept anonymous) to edit a story chapter. Later, I found that the story had already been posted on GA, so my editing job was really a polishing job, and the story did need polishing. With so many authors out there with stories in raw form, I don't feel redoing a story is the best use of my editing skills, unless it is as superb a story as Thirty Two Faces. Should I stop the editing offer now, should I wait until this story is finished and not do-over another uploaded story -- that is wait for an original, or should I ignore the fact that the story has already been published? The author, from what I've read, is good.