Sweet Reviewing Goodness

August 31st 2004 at 9:56 am

Over at Emerald City So Long Been Dreaming got an outstanding review by Cheryl Morgan:
The featured book at the Liverpool convention was, naturally, concerned with colonialism. Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan have put together an anthology of stories that they describe as “postcolonial science fiction and fantasy”. Precisely what “postcolonial” means is, of course, open […]

ahhh

August 31st 2004 at 9:41 am

The new iMac has arrived.

Stuff

August 30th 2004 at 4:45 pm

Speculation is abuzz regarding the nature of the new iMac. I wonder what it will look like? The big bet seems to be it will be a flat panel monitor with the guts of the computer behind the LCD.
Taught the first session of my class today. One guy up front had an audible ’sweet’ when […]

Shout Out To The Man Behind The Cubicle

August 29th 2004 at 9:00 pm

The inventor of the cubicle:
Propst has created a monster. The modern American office he envisioned as a place where productivity, if not happiness, would thrive has become exactly the kind of environment loathed by those who wear suits and collect regular paychecks. But Propst wants to make one thing perfectly clear: He does not […]

Arrivals

August 27th 2004 at 12:54 am

My package of So Long Been Dreaming contributors copies arrived. Sweet. I gave one of them to the president of the college, not for brownie points, but because she was one of the people who personally went out of her way to provide support for my Clarion experience, and I usually try to make sure […]

Headphones

August 26th 2004 at 8:35 am

One of the things I have spent some time researching further is headphones, and I’ve found the pair that have the highest rating and kudos online from all manner of people. They’re called Grado Headphones. The phones I’m particularly interested in are the affordable, but not bottom line, Grado SR-80s:

Everywhere I read about them says […]

Internet Meltdown

August 26th 2004 at 8:22 am

Could be an interesting day today…
Terrorists will paralyze the Internet on August 26, a Russian expert in antivirus programs said on Tuesday.
Speaking at a conference hosted by Russian Information Agency Novosti, Aleksandr Gostev from Kaspersky Labs said information on this terrorist attack was published on special websites. He did not elaborate.
First of all, the United […]

DOJ In Action Again

August 25th 2004 at 7:15 pm

I dunno, rather than this I’d prefer the DOJ spend more time on hunting terrorists or something…
‘P2P does not stand for ‘permission to pilfer,’ Ashcroft said.

Expeditious Parallells

August 25th 2004 at 9:14 am

Trent Walters emailed me an interesting link about a Puerto Rican expedition to find a lost slave ship that reminded him of parallels to my story Spurn Babylon.
Archaeologists are set to begin an expedition this month in hopes of finding a Spanish ship that wrecked along the jagged reefs off the Turks and Caicos Islands […]

Pssst

August 24th 2004 at 11:48 pm

If you haven’t downloaded a story of mine from fictionwise.com yet, you might consider grabbing a title or two as they’re all 20% right now. There are 11 stories to choose from in various PDA formats…