Recent Publications
Blog Posts
I'm not going to list individual posts on my own blogs. Go check them out!
- An Irene Thing - General interest posts.
- Dreams in Transit - Posts about the writing life and some fiction.
- TechWriter 13 - Tutorials for computer operating systems and software.
Wild One Forever
I am Senior Editor at the blog, Wild One Forever and publish there on a regular basis. Here are the posts I've done this year:
- Oxymoron: Workaholic With a Social LifeSeptember 23, 2020
- Why I Ate Only Potatoes for 30 Days - July 29, 2020
- The Paris Wife - July 14, 2020
- Finding the Beauty in our Differences - July 9, 2020
- How to Handle a Hypocrite - July 6, 2020
- US Supreme Court Strikes Down Louisiana Anti-Abortion Law - June 29, 2020
- 5 Times the Movie was Better than the Book- June 20, 2020
- Learn to Find Inspiration Everywhere you Look - June 10, 2020
- What Did I Do to Deserve This? - June 5, 2020
- I Want My Life to Mean Something - June 1, 2020
- Is It Tomorrow Yet? - May 30, 2020
- Conquering your Fear of Failure - May 29, 2020
- What’s in a Name? - May 16, 2020
- I Love My Mother, but… - May 10, 2020
Short Stories
- "Food for Thought" - October 31, 2020
- "Bottled Sunshine"The post is titled "More Dreams" and the story follows the introduction.
- "Twinkle, Twinkle", 50-Word Stories, June 11, 2019
- "Color of the Sky", 101 Words, Aug 1, 2017
- "If, by Chance...", 121 Words (Facebook), July 1, 2017
- "Twenty-one Grams", Another Realm, April/May 2005. (Second Prize Winner)
- "Man Maid," Coffee Cramp Magazine, July 2005.
- "Psst...," RITRO, July 10, 2004.
- "Pixie Dust," RITRO, June 19, 2004.
- "Bury the Hatchet," RITRO, June 12, 2004.
- "Blackout," Luscious Desert Female Literary 'Zine, April, 2004.
- "Lost and Found," AlienSkin Magazine, November 2003.
- "No Time," Long Story Short, October 2003.
Articles
- Writing in the Age of Distractions, March 2017
- Why I've had Enough of Recruiters, March 2017
- Using Markdown with WordPress, February 2017
- Writers Should be Agile Too, February 2017
- Are our devices over-stepping their bounds?, February 2017
- Hedwig Taught me to Fly, December 2016
- When it all goes Wrong! (Fixing Microsoft Word's Default Templates), November 2016
- DoubleClick Ad Exchange Buyer REST API Version 1.1 Released, September 7, 2012 on the Google Ads Developer Blog.
- "Sunday Morning" RITRO, March 20, 2004.
Older Publications
The articles in the next two sections were all written before I was married, so they were published under my maiden name.
Programming Articles
- Governale, Irene P. "Top-Level Menu Handlers in VB," PC Techniques, February/March 1994.
- Governale, Irene P. "Visual Data Basics," PC Techniques, February/March 1994.
- Governale, Irene P. "Animated Buttons for Visual Basic," PC Techniques, April/May 1993.
- Governale, Irene P. "Catch the .WAV," PC Techniques, December/January 1993.
- Governale, Irene P. HAX 13, "Dump any Variable from BASIC," PC Techniques, June/July 1990.
- Governale, Irene P. "Writing Filters in BASIC," CodeWorks Issue 21, Jan/Feb 1989.
Reviews
- Governale, Irene P. "DI-OGDC V2.1 from On Top Systems," (Critique) PC Techniques, February/March 1994.
- Governale, Irene P. "The Visual Guide to Visual Basic for Windows, by Richard Mansfield," (Review), PC Techniques, February/March 1994.
- Governale, Irene P. "Educational Mysteries," PC Hands On, September 1990.
- Aitken, Peter and Irene P. Governale. "BASICs Reborn," PC Techniques, June/July 1990.
- Governale, Irene P. "Bookcase" (Review of C Step by Step, by Mitchell Waite and Stephen Prata) PC Techniques, June/July 1990.
- Governale, Irene P. "QuickBASIC Advanced Techniques, Peter G. Aitken" (Review), PC Tecniques, April/May 1990.