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Why yes, I am still alive, and no, I have not given up blogging. Thanks for asking. I've just been working a lot. And here's a sneak-peak at what I've been working on getting ready for prime time—the spouse's business web site: That's my favorite page of the site, the Projects page.

Coming soon (no, this time, I mean it) a couple of reviews: the new AP stylebook and my long-lost, recently found, very worn copy of the Solid Gold Copy Editor.

“Copy editors are being bought out or forced out; they are dying and not being replaced.†If newspaper copy editors vanish from the earth, no one is going to notice.†a great New York Times piece on the death of a copy editor, my first real job out of college; which happened after they announced the death of the dark room.

I feel anesthetized.  Slept soundly enough last night just before the clock struck nine and yet i woke up with heavy eyelids and with tendrils of laziness hovering all over me. For sure, I would be late for work again. However, I didn’t rush. I padded downstairs, fed an Alicia’s Attic CD in the player, and stretched a bit before going to the bathroom.

A fast, no-frills XML editor with DTD/XML Schema/RELAX NG validation, XSLT, XPath, pretty-printing, syntax highlighting, folding, tag completion, lossless import/export of Microsoft Word documents and a highly configurable spelling and style check.

Earlier today, I looked at the properties of a Word document—a book chapter—that I'm editing. In the Author line on the Summary tab, I expected to see the physician author's name, followed by his string of advanced degrees, as is usually the case with these kinds of files. Instead, it read simply: Dad.

Funny discovery. If one misspells “Israel†as “Isreal†while searching at globeandmail.com, one will find 28 articles. And I thought I was the only one who did that. Repeatedly. Thank goodness for the little red dotted line.

The massive 7.9-magnitude earthquake in southwest China that killed at least 10,000 has me worried. China is home to 6 of the many authors for whom I do ESL (English as a second language) editing of the manuscripts that they want to submit to U.S. medical journals for publication.

Silly News 15: The day the copyeditor got fired! Posted by robertstevenson on May 11, 2008 Sounds like a cushy job. (BTW: did you notice the contact person for the previous ad?) Well you better go catch it. Can’t get enough of that gravel. Only middle school drop outs need apply This is too good to be true.

Here's one off craigslist that looks interesting. An editor is needed to copy edit newsletters and blogs for a successful website. You must be a clever individual with prior writing experience, and you must be able to turn work around fast. You will be editing 2 to 4 pieces of copy a day during the week, each about 250 to 500 words.