By J. Timothy King on March 31, 2010
Like any other small businessman, he assumed his Internet account was basically safe. Instead, he found himself another victim of the latest 21’st century crime wave, when his valuable domain name, VL.com, was hijacked in a high-tech heist. Told by a first-person witness to the crime, reconstructed from forensic evidence compiled in the aftermath, this […]
Posted in Intellectual Property, Stories, Technology, True Stories | Tagged crime, cybercrime, domain hijacking, domain theft, Internet, true crime |
By J. Timothy King on March 24, 2010
I’ve majorly revised “The Widow’s Granddaughter,” a short story (about 12,000 words) I wrote a few years ago. This is the story of Marietta, a pretty, young woman who has had one bad relationship after another, starting with her parents. Fortunately, they were gone for most of her life. She grew up living with her […]
Posted in Books, Fiction, Stories
By J. Timothy King on March 17, 2010
Another part of this series of posts, “Depression and the Software Developer.” This latest story I started on Monday, part 4 of “Depression and the Software Developer”. [Note: You can read the story from the beginning in order to catch up.] No client or employer will ever admit to you that he doesn’t want to […]
Posted in Confessions of a Veteran Software Developer, Software Development, Stories, True Stories | Tagged biography, depression, programming, software engineering, stress |
By J. Timothy King on March 15, 2010
Here’s a story I’ve been keeping on the back burner for almost a year now. I haven’t published it until now, because it still hit too close to home. But this week, I’ve scheduled an interview with Sharon Cathcart, author of In the Eye of the Beholder, which I am currently reading, and a memoir […]
Posted in Confessions of a Veteran Software Developer, Software Development, Stories, True Stories | Tagged biography, depression, programming, software engineering, stress |
By J. Timothy King on February 23, 2010
At the Museum of Science in Boston, the last time I was there, they had a display of cockroaches, big ones. (Similar to the display pictured here, which is from the London Zoo.) Even though the buggies were behind plastic, I felt an urgent need to get out of there as fast possible. My phobia […]
Posted in About Tim King, Stories, True Stories | Tagged ants, bugs, cockroaches, fruit flies
By J. Timothy King on January 28, 2010
Last week, I got the strangest email, and I still can’t quite figure out what to make of it. N, from the Natural Sciences department at Bentley University, found a sealed NetFlix DVD on a cart in one of the buildings there. She also noticed the corresponding torn-off part of the envelope, the part with […]
Posted in Stories, True Stories | Tagged anecdotes, NetFlix |
By J. Timothy King on January 8, 2010
I’m remembering my 20’s. Because everyone remembers his 20’s. I dropped out of school at 20 years old, met my wife at 22, married at 24, had my first daughter at 27, and my second at 29. Yes, the average American’s roaring 20’s are full of growth, choices, excitement, and dirty diapers, usually in that […]
Posted in Humor, Stories, True Stories | Tagged 20-something, 20's, college
By J. Timothy King on November 13, 2009
The Little One was commissioned by one of her friends to draw pictures for a book about how to grow flowers. My first question was, of course, “How can you draw pictures for a book that hasn’t been written yet?” That was the Little One’s question, too. But she drew the pictures, and explained each […]
Posted in Books, Stories | Tagged Abbie King, artwork, children |
By J. Timothy King on September 22, 2009
This past week, I asked on Facebook, “When NOTHING seems to be going as it should, how do you avoid getting all negative?” My Facebook friends gave me a number of possible answers, but nothing really hit home, this past Saturday morning in synagogue when we read a selection from First Samuel chapter 1. Suddenly, […]
Posted in Christianity, Fiction, Inspiration, Judaism, Religion, Stories, True Stories | Tagged depression, encouragement, spirituality
By J. Timothy King on September 7, 2009
A few issues ago, the Human Givens Journal published an interview with Sheila Barratt-Smith, of GentleBirth birth courses (in the UK). In this interview, she tells us about normal, pain-free births. Now, I’m not a woman, and I’ve never given birth, and both of my daughters experienced complications while being born (so not “normal” births). […]
Posted in Fear and Love, Inspiration, Stories, True Stories | Tagged birth, fear, labor, natural child birth, pain, pain-free birth, pain-free labor, painless birth, painless labor, placebo effect, psychology |