Archive for March, 2004
CSS: Look and Feel of Website
March 31st 2004 at 4:27 pm
So I got on the windows computers and the site hardly renders right and looks like shit.
I’m going to have to get back to work on the CSS stylesheets.
If you are in windows, sorry, we’ll get this licked.
Methane Detected In Martian Atmosphere
March 31st 2004 at 2:42 pm
This Spacedaily.com article announces that methane has been detected in the martian atmosphere, a big deal because methane disappears easily, and must be constantly be put back into the atmosphere for it to be discovered. Spacedaily says:
There are some problems with trying to understand the history of methane and other greenhouse gases on Mars. There […]
Table of Contents: Tides From The New Worlds
March 30th 2004 at 11:50 pm
This is the tentative collection of stories I will be putting in ‘Tides From The New Worlds.’ Manumission is the only original story I’m putting in there, all the others are stories I’ve sold.
Tides From The New Worlds:
The Fish Merchant
Spurn Babylon
In Orbite Medievali
The Shackles of Freedom (with Mike Resnick)
Death’s Dreadlocks
Her
Four Eyes
Anakoinosis
Trinkets
Tides
In The Heart of Kalikuata
Manumission
Necahual
Russell Crowe?
March 30th 2004 at 7:58 pm
I spend my afternoon giving a briefing on Caribbean Culture in Columbus which was an interesting experience, but the part I won’t forget is, for the third time in the last year, I had something funny happen. As I walk in the door the facilitator looked at me and said that I reminded her of […]
New Site
March 30th 2004 at 12:31 am
Okay, it happens every year or so, but I’m moving again. I had movable type installed on a new webhost (something I tried to do a year and a half ago) and started fiddling.
I’m thinking this is good, that I’m happy, and I’m going to make something very neat.
Not getting much sleep.
So if you’re swinging […]
Get $10 Free iTunes
March 28th 2004 at 10:09 am
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BidColumbus.org
March 27th 2004 at 8:47 pm
BidColumbus.org
A Bid to host
The 65th World Science Fiction Convention
Labor Day Weekend 2007
Columbus, Ohio
I’m sooo crossing my fingers for this. I know some SMOFs have told me that Japan deserves this bid, and I know Columbus isn’t sexy compared to other Worldcon locations, but I’m still crossing my fingers.
Amazing Stories Editor Team’s Weblog
March 26th 2004 at 8:37 pm
The Amazing Stories Weblog:
Vic Wertz here. I took home a chunk of the submissions stack last night.
The good news: Every story I read was written by someone with more than a passing knowledge of the English language. All of the stories had a beginning, a middle, and an end (though I disagreed with one […]
NASA’s X-43A Flies This Weekend
March 26th 2004 at 2:16 pm
NASA’s X-43A Hypersonic Aircraft Ready For Flight
NASA has set Saturday, March 27, for the flight of its experimental X-43A hypersonic research aircraft. The unpiloted 12-foot-long vehicle, part aircraft and part spacecraft, will be dropped from the wing of a modified B-52 aircraft, boosted to nearly 100,000 feet altitude by a booster rocket and released over […]
Free iTunes Song
March 26th 2004 at 2:13 pm
Tobias S. Buckell Online
Yep, it’s that time again.
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