Joshua Sowin shares A Guide to Writing Well which he “mainly distilled from On Writing Well by William Zinsser and The Elements of Style by Strunk and White.”

I read Zinsser’s book about a year ago and loved it. Both books should be close by–along with this guide–for those who write just about anything.

From: Justin Taylor

Since the Buckeyes were playing in the national title game yesterday our family felt it only appropriate to declare yesterday a national holiday. Today we’ve declared a national day of mourning–at least around the Pierpont home. After their loss last night to Florida I had to say “who are you and what have you done with my Buckeyes”. They didn’t appear to be the same team last night. While saddened by their loss yesterday I’m still pleased with their perfect regular season and certainly happy with their win over the team from Ann Arbor–just in case y’all had forgotten about that. Go Bucks!

Great news for those of us who often need to move a Microsoft Word document to the web and wish to retain much of the formatting–and great news for those who wish to move Word documents to a WordPress powered website.

blog.dot is a Word document template with an associated DLL for Windows that makes moving a Word document to WordPress (or any other web application where HTML formatted text is needed) a breeze.

This tool produces very clean HTML–far better than Microsoft’s options for exporting HTML from a Word document. It can post directly to your blog or will give you a window of your HTML formatted text to copy and paste to WordPress or any other web application.

From: wpplugins.org

From: Ken Pierpont