Austin Homebrew Supply is my local homebrew supply store. They have a good selection of brewing and winemaking supplies and ingredients, and lots of recipes.  They have always been helpful and are one of the reasons I have as much enthusiasm for brewing as I do.

 

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I am thankful for recording technology. Recording technology makes it possible for me to take my music and audio books with me, go to a theater and watch a movie,  record a television show that I can’t watch, and listen to and record podcasts.  Recording technology is so much a part of my everyday life that I rarely think about it, but I am very thankful for it.

 

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Last year, my boyfriend and I adopted a kitten named Squish.  He had been brought to the Town Lake Animal Shelter here in Austin. One of their volunteers fostered him until he was old enough to be be adopted. Squish has been a source of love, amusement, and wonder ever since we brought him home. He definitely has his moments of troublemaking, but he’s been a wonderful addition to our home.

For Squish, and for all the other animals that are rescued and adopted every year, thank you to Town Lake Animal Shelter.

 

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Thank you #8 goes to W3Schools.  They are my go-to website when I need a quick reference, refresher, or tutorial for most web-related coding.  They have tutorials and examples that you can test.  If you’re looking for information about HTML, Javascript, CSS, XML, PHP or several other subjects, you can find it on their site.

 

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My 7th thank you goes to Farpoint Media.  Without Mike Mennenga and the rest of the Farpoint crew, I would never have found most of the podcasts I continue to listen to.  The Farpoint Media family now includes about 100 podcasts on a variety of different subjects. If you want to find podcasts to listen to, I highly recommend starting at Farpoint.

Some examples – pulled from my current and past podcast subscriptions:

• Dragon Page Cover to cover – interviews with authors and discussion of fantasy and sci-fi books
• Slice of Sci-fi – what’s going on in the Sci-fi world
• I Should Be Writing – Mur Lafferty’s podcast about writing fiction
• Survival Guide to Writing Fantasy – Tee Morris’ original podcast about writing, publishing, and marketing your work (ended in 2009)
• Adventures in Sci-Fi Publishing – about the sci-fi and fantasy publishing world
• Variant Frequencies – short stories of the speculative fiction genre
• DragonHearth – Tracy and Laura Hickman’s podcast
• Freshly Green – environmentally friendly advice and suggestions
• Marc Gunn’s Pub Songs Podcast – pub songs from Marc Gunn
• The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast – the title says it all
• Speaking of Beer – information and education on beer

 

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I use the Firefox browser from Mozilla and I love it. I recommend it to anyone I know who is still using Internet Explorer.  Why do I love it?  It plays well with web standards and the extensions available for it make web-design and posting much easier.

So, to Mozilla and to the many developers that work on Firefox and its extensions – Thank you.

 

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Today’s thank you goes to Mur Lafferty.

Mur inspires me because of how much she has done – from writing for role-playing games and a book on podcasting to podcasting her essays and novels. She is always challenging herself and sharing her efforts and lessons with us.

You can find links to all her work below the podcast player or at the Murverse.

 

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I Should be Writing (advice and information from Mur about writing)

Much of Mur’s audio fiction can be found at Podiobooks as well as at the following sites:

The Heaven Series

The Takeover (Zombies in corporate America)

Escape Pod (annual Christmas stories)

Playing for Keeps (Super – and not so super – heroes)

Mur’s Published Work

Thank you #4 goes out to Tee Morris for podcasting advice, hours and hours entertainment, making me feel like a friend instead of just a fan, and being a fan of my cookies and homebrewed beer. Please listen to the podcast for a better idea of why I owe him my thanks.

I found Tee through The Survival Guide to Writing Fantasy podcast. Though that podcast ended last year, he is very easy to find online. His podcast novels can be found at Podiobooks.com and you can find him on Twitter as TeeMonster (his personal feed) and ITStudios (his business feed). You can find more information about Tee at TeeMorris.com and about his work at ITStudios.com.

Below the podcast player, you’ll find links to Tee’s books on Amazon. They are most definitely worth the read!

 

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Tee’s Non-fiction

Tee’s Fantasy Novels

Tee’s Billibub Baddings Mysteries

Today’s thank you goes to webhosting companies. ISPs may allow us to access the internet, but without webhosts most of us wouldn’t be able to fully participate in it. We wouldn’t have the server space to share our thoughts and accomplishments.

I’m especially thankful for my webhost Dreamhost, because they provide me with all the things I need to make my sites work and look the way I want them to -  PHP, MySQL, multiple domains on a single account, one-click installs and upgrades of some of the most popular web application, and Ruby on Rails.

A quick little extra thank you – if you choose Dreamhost as your webhost and use the referral code 365THANKYOUS, you will receive a discount and this site will receive a referral bonus.

 

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Internet Service Providers

More often than not, you hear complaints about them, but I’m thankful for them.

Yes, they’re expensive and often the customer service isn’t great, but without them we couldn’t access the internet – no email, Skype, or instant messengers. No access to write or read websites and blogs.

No 365 Thank Yous.

So, to the ISPs out there – especially mine (AT&T Uverse ), thank you.

 

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