I haven’t done anything here in quite a while, which is all as planned. But the site is lingering on the edge of my consciousness, and I had decided to close it down completely.

When I mentioned this to several friends and readers they prevailed upon me to keep the site up. But I don’t want to do that if I’m not offering anything new, so I’ve decided to make the book available online for free.

The contents of the book have basically been free ever since the site launched: each of the biweekly posts I wrote here over the period of a year or so were taken from the book. Some examples were removed and the content was trimmed up a little, but most of the concepts were in the posts.

I continued to sell books well after I stopped updating this site, and I’m very grateful to those of you who purchased a copy. Your purchase helped make the two years I spent writing the book worthwhile.

The print run sold out several months ago, and while I’ve sold PDF copies here and there the reception was never as warm for that version of the book as for the print version. In order to keep the concepts alive and available, and to reach the last 4 or 5 of you who wanted to read the book but felt $9.95 was too much of a commitment, its all now free. You can find the book in its entirety here in both HTML and PDF versions.

If, like me, you’re a paper book kind of person, you can still buy your very own version in that ancient medium at Lulu by clicking here. This book is the very same version I was selling through this site (which was also printed by Lulu).

There are a few other changes as well. I’ve shut down the commenting system so I don’t have to deal with comment spam any more, and I’ll be killing the RSS feeds as well in a few days. Its all about zero maintenance.

I will eventually shut this site down, so download your copy while you can. And if you do read it now that its free, please send me an email and let me know that you read it and, if you like, what you thought.