Yikes!

Obviously, I haven't opened Internet Explorer for a long time. Well, I finally did just a few minutes ago, and saw this when I logged on to TW:



Huh? Where did my image header go?? This is how it's supposed to look like:



I hard-coded the HTML for the image header on Mozilla Firefox. Since I've always been confident that the Firefox and IE people do try to make their browsers accommodate both Mozilla and Microsoft users, I did not anymore bother to check how TW would look like on IE. I guess it's never safe to assume things at the moment, especially with the case of the missing image header!

If you're seeing the same empty header on IE, do let me know. And, if you can tell me how or why the image wouldn't appear on IE, I'd really appreciate it. I'll see if I could make some adjustments later on. In the meantime, you might want to try using Mozilla Firefox as alternative browser. It's by far one of the best browsers I've ever used in my 12 years as Internet addict.

Pulitzer Winners for 2007

I almost missed this. Phew!!

In case the jurors's owl hasn't reached you with the news, here are the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Winners for Letters, Drama & Music. (You'll have to scroll down a bit to see the list). As usual, I have my eye on the winning entries for Fiction, Biography and General Nonfiction.

Special citations and awards were also given to Ray Bradbury (I love this guy!) and John Coltrane.

Related:

• Nominating Jurors in Letters, Drama and Music (PDF)
  
• Pounding the Pulitzer Beat
  
• Why Some 2007 Pulitzer Finalists Didn't Leak
  
• History of the Pulitzer Prizes

The Writer's Unblock Tool

I recently added Writer's Unblock Tool to my Google Reader. The Writer's Unblock Tool is a free gadget/tool from Mode Room Press that fights writer’s block. Every time you refresh it, a paragraph of prose imagery is generated to inspire you and give you suggestions for plot, setting and storyline. Here's a sample:



This tool would be most helpful for novelists, songwriters, poets, story authors, painters and other creative artists. It's been a long time since I dabbled into creative writing. I have some ideas germinating in my mind, but I haven't really written or typed anything. Hopefully, this tool would help me generate more ideas.

If you've tried this tool, let me know what you think of it.

Orange Prize and Slavery Poems

The Orange Broadband prize is among the world's most prestigious prize for fiction by women writing in English. This year's contenders include novelists from 7 countries.

To mark the publication of this year's longlist, Guardian Unlimited is offering a prize: the complete longlist, comprising 20 of this year's very best novels.

Sounds juicy? Simply answer this question before April 17, 2007. Don't forget to read the terms and conditions.

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Arts Council England is inviting poets to commemorate the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act by writing a poem on the theme of enslavement. Deadline of submission is on September 28, 2007.

Eleven poems will be specially commissioned by the Arts Council from some of the country’s leading poets. A twelfth poem will be chosen through a competition.

For more details, visit artscouncil.org.uk.