Mark Cavendish,(the 'Manx Express') the Columbia High Road sprinter has just taken his second consecutive stage win in the Tour Of California. At the end he left the others including Tom Boonen, for dead. He is on absolutely cracking form. This is his 32nd stage win in two years as a professional, bring on the TdF!

Angharad.

Back at the dawn of desktop computers in business it was hard not to load a game on your office PC, I mean after all there were just not enough hours outside of work to play some of these games. It soon became such a problem in corporate America that companies forbid employees from installing games on their office PC's.
This lead to the birth of the "Boss Key" feature to be installed in many of the better games. Hit the Boss Key and it would throw up a more business appropriate alternate page.

My good friend and editor, Gabi Bunton, has had ISP problems and thus not been online for a few hours - a position I hope is very temporary - hence the lack of her involvement last night. Hopefully it should be fixed today some time.

Angharad.

I have become involved in a project that is taking all of my free time. As a result, I have to withdraw my offer to edit for the time being at least. Maybe once this project is finished, I can make the offer again.

Kaho =^.^=

This Image was provided by Heather Rose Brown who I thank. But I am looking for a new image for book 2 of Kelly's Journey. I am looking for a red 4-leaf clover with a rose in each leaf to signify Kelly's Irish heritage, ( she has red hair and green eyes) and the song "The Rose" which she adopts as her own. There are two Images used here, the intwined roses of Reconciliation by P.B. and "The Rose" by Maggie The Kitten. But I want a new one. If any can provide the image, I'd be most grateful.

Hello everyone it is me here. I don't know if anyone noticed but I posted a story here a few months ago. I thought it was a good start at a long serial but my muse went away so progress stoped. I am sorry if anyone is upset. Well he returned from where ever he went to :) but now he seems to want me to take another direction. I have another idea for a story but I need some advice on it so I will give a few details. There was a good cartoon I used to watch way back in the 80s about a supercomputer that could project holographic images anywhere.

If anyone wants a series they have finished converted to PDF or into LIT format I'm willing to do the work.

I don't know if it has been mentioned here but Gabyzone is up and running again.

http://www.gabyzone.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=MDForum&...

Please don't go off on me on how I should know these things. I worked inbound Tech support for Gateway computers back at the turn of the millennium. I do already had a keen grasp on this concept. I actually kept a log of how many grown men broke down weeping after I told them that neither their "novel" was okay or Gateway was responsible for a hard drive crash.

So I've posted my third story, it's imcomplete but I needed to post what I had to intice readers in giving me ideas on how to continue. Also it gives me time to start the sequil to "My life in a dress" and "Matt's Dilemma".

I was just scanning around and noted that two days ago, Britan's Nicole Cooke won this awesome award. Another victory for cycling....Posted just for you Ang.

This may or may not be connected to the server move, but I thought I had better let you know, Erin and Bob, in case anyone else is experiencing the same thing.

I posted the final part for my novel Standing Up to Life a little bit ago, I hope you all have enjoyed reading it! I'll be posting the sequel to this novel up here in the next couple weeks once I finish working on some last proofreading bits and get it through Lulu.com's publishing process. Thanks for reading!
-Tiffany Shar :-)

Angel and I were chatting and I was telling her about my Kelly's Journey, she challenged me to complete one of her unposted stories. Well, I accepted the challenge, then she challenged me to add the emotions to my characters. The challenge was to finish the story and make the characters real and make your readers "FEEL" the story.

Why We Each Need an Editor

AE Brain is a interesting blog by an Australian rocket scientist. Her entry for the 12th is about an intersexed woman transitioning. It is a Youtube, but there is a short write up explaining her situation.

http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2009/02/human-being.html

Besides Zoe often has articles about the TG experience and stuff!

Hugs!

grover

The California Supreme Court has ruled that a transgender prisoner can sue her guards and the prison system as a whole for their failure to protect her from sexual assault while held in the general male prison population.

The Prison system and the guards had claimed that they had no duty to protect or care for the inmates under their charge.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/11/...

Yesterday was just too interesting.

I know of five directors who have acted in their own movies:

Alfred Hitchcock

Mel Brooks

Clint Eastwood

Danny Devito

Can you name anyone else and the movie?

BUT, I feel that I should. I want to draw attention to Angharad's Bike series to the many readers that have come here from FM. When she first posted the series, I thought, this isn't for me. I waited for a year and a half to start to read it, and the story wasn't what I thought it would be. It's very touching and much like a column in a news paper which is published every day, except without the waste of a bunch of paper and trees. I know how hard it is to write a series and my bonnet is off to Angharad. What I'm saying is to please take a chance and become hooked.

I got my paperwork in the mail and I can now claim title as Lady Jennifer Campbell. I purchased a lease of 5 Square feet of land in Bandrum, Kingdom of Fife, Scotland. I am very happy to help preserve the land of my ancestors for future generations. I hold title in my family for 175 years and can pass it down to future generations in my family. This land is beautiful and deserves to be protected from greedy developers.

Parts of Australia have had terrible wildfires, over 130 people have died and many folks were burned, some may not make it.

Kristina LS and our other pals from Oz, are you okay, family alright?

I once had a very small cat.
So small I named her Quantum.
She never saw any buttons that
Were so ugly she didn't want'em.

I have just noticed that according to the that cat in the hat box, that Amazon Hat Box goal is a bit ahead finally. It was usually a bit behind. WAY TO GO ERIN!

There are loads of links, this one had a bit more text with it.The film is called 'Rage'.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Jude-Law-Cross-Dresses-for-Ra...

Angharad.

You ever had one of those days where you wake up and roll over to look at the clock and scream because you're going to be late for work so you jump out of bed and rush around in a blind panic trying to get ready but you still know you can't make it in time so you slam the door and call to let them know you're going to be late and get a confused silence because you've been asleep three hours and misread your clock and still have over twelve hours before you have to be at work? I hate those days.

My wonderful husband, Grover, drove me to work today. On the way there we were talking about the blog "Women are Hard to Read". As the conversation went on, we then talked about the virtual whirlwind of emotions and thoughts that women go through during different parts of life. I told him I was cute and fuzzy when things are going well, but if someone I love or care for is being attacked (according to my perception) then the claws come out. He turned to me and said..."So...you're a Velocibunny!"

http://news.aol.com/health/article/teen-sex-change-kim-petra...

If you can access it there are two poles:

Should someone Petras' age be allowed to undergo a sex-change operation?

German teenager Kim Petras who became the world's youngest transsexual after undergoing an operation at the age of just 16 says she can't wait for the summer so she can try out a whole new wardrobe of tight fitting clothes.
The pop singer - born Tim - is well known in Germany for having started hormone replacement therapy as part of her gender transition by the age of 12.
Now 16, she completed Gender Reassignment Surgery in November, according to a posting on her blog.

Garden News
Today I want to post the first news about Hypatia's Garden.

A question to you all! How many are taking up "DENNY'S" on there "FREE offer of a Slam Breakfast" tomorrow between the hours of 6am and 2pm across America? Richard

Bob and I will be experimenting with a new server configuration (not with the current BC server) over the next few weeks. If things work out well, we expect to be able to increase BC speed and reliability to a noticeable degree. Wish us luck. :)

Erin,
I know you warned us but I was almost watching it. 5,000,000 hits on January 31 at this end of the world. I went out for dinner and when I came back it was over.
WOW,
Joanne

with FM down i just realized that i will have a hard time find JulieO's works. I don't know how often julieo posts on topsehelf or stardust.She is my all time favorite author. I was also wondering if there is a offical list of stories by her and other authors in her universe.I know she has stand alone stories and ones that are connected in julieverse looking for the connected ones.

Gang; I just got an e-Mail from Angel saying she just got out of the hospital from emergency surgery and has been there since the 31st of December. She lost 50lbs while there and just needs some bed rest for now. Also I'm glad hear she OK. We will probally hear more from her as she gets better! Richard

I want to say thank you very much. As I said, this is a story which, I hope, will be just the first of what will be nothing but complete stories from me, from now on.

Links to a site called FictionMirror have been placed here but I have suspended their publication because the identified "advanced search" on the page brings up instead a series of pop-under ads for sports sites. I consider this technique a form of spam by deception.

This link is discussed in the WikiPedia article on FictionMania where it is implied but not stated that the FM TaskForce has approved FictionMirror. I would appreciate communication from some person knowledgeable about this but I will not pursue the information.

Hugs,
Erin

Good evening everyone and thanks for reading. My name is Lana and I'm a tad bit of a closeted sissy. It is so great to be able to come to Big Closet, catch up on some great stories, and be able to get away to my special state of mind.

As I hinted at earlier, no one knows about my love of women's clothing. Well, that's not entire true. I did admit and discuss my desires to one friend, but she has since married and I do not want to bother her with my sissydom any longer.

It occurred to me, that those non-cyclists who read Bike, might not have a clue what I'm talking about when I mention Saunier Duval (a cycling team - now defunct) and David Millar, a British rider who has been a national champion at road and time trial racing.

A picture is supposed to be worth a thousand words:

Angharad :)

Here I am again, begging for votes instead of nominations. As of late today, Jan. 24th, only four people have voted, including myself. That's not nearly enough for a fair tally. There are a lot of very good stories that really do deserve recognition so I hope to see a lot more votes soon.