When I wrote my first post on 200wordsaday.com, I realized that a grammar and spell checking tool would be really helpful in speeding up the editing process and improving my non-native English writing skills at the same time. The Top Dog: Grammarly Grammarly has been heavily advertised all over the web recently – at least…
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A Quick Review of FacesOfAuschwitz.com
Today, I read an interview with Marina Amara, a Brazilian photo colorist who founded the project “Faces of Auschwitz”. The interview is part of a series called “Success Stories” on the website of Automattic, the company of WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg. The project aims to establish an individual perspective to the anonymous and incomprehensible number…
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Deporting Veterans – another not-so surprising US hypocrisy?
Today, I read a Member Feature Story on Medium.com by Robert A Stribley with the simple title “We Deport Veterans”. Stribley lives in New York and actually works as an UX designer by day but has written quite extensively on issues such as immigration, privacy and security. Stribly describes how the United States deports foreign-born…
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Aspirations of a young writer
When I was seventeen years old I co-founded a print magazine at my high school, together with some friends. That must have been in 1999. I enjoyed both the writing itself and seeing my musings published – out there for everyone to read. One of my articles was about my fierce and unstoppable love for…