creative riff » Headline http://creativeriff.com Stuff. Blended. A blog for the age(s). Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:03:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Out of the office http://creativeriff.com/2009/09/04/out-of-the-office/ http://creativeriff.com/2009/09/04/out-of-the-office/#comments Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:17:37 +0000 Ruth Loose88 http://creativeriff.com/?p=1142 Pee-Wee-755784It sure has been awhile since I last checked into the office. Basically half a month to be exact. My excuse: stealing a wireless signal in muggy Richmond makes one look more than a little suspicious. Now that I have had working Internet (I like how I think of it like running water) for over a week now, I have had no excuse for abandoning my infant. Or is this thing a toddler now (the website is 5 months old now)? I thought I would upload some pictures of my blog's analytics.

So here is my built-in blog stats generator:

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They say there are two constants in life: death and taxes, so when the Internal Revenue Service decides to invade the virtual computer massively multiplayer online [MMO] game known as Second Life a few heads should turn (as well as a few eyes start rolling).

Virtual Worlds & Social Networking Project Manager Frank Stripe said, "In 2008, the IRS project team established a presence in the Second Life virtual world with the goal of exploring the potential use of this environment for recruitment and training purposes. The team has created the IRS Careers Island and constructed a sky platform with an IRS Careers Center and an IRS Education Center. A number of building

Continue reading]]> http://creativeriff.com/2009/08/14/irs-saves-money-by-making-advertising-push-in-second-life-instead-of-with-nascar/feed/ 0 New Short Story – Poolside http://creativeriff.com/2009/07/31/new-short-story-poolside/ http://creativeriff.com/2009/07/31/new-short-story-poolside/#comments Sat, 01 Aug 2009 03:15:31 +0000 Ruth Loose88 http://creativeriff.com/?p=1024 pool2-lgGot a hot new piece of fiction here that I worked on during one of my many Goodwill donation center shifts this summer. This one is heavily influenced by Jay McInerney and my own childhood. I'm still not sure why I love writing about time periods I was not alive during.

Direct link: Poolside [PDF]

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