Archive for February, 2007
Library madness
February 28th 2007 at 11:35 pm
This letter to Neil Gaiman by a librarian was just amazing:
I walked out of our main branch one day to find
several van loads of people carrying picket signs and
descending on our building. There were many children
with the group and some of them were given picket
signs and sent out to rally cars driving by to “Honk
if […]
Powermac for sale?
February 28th 2007 at 2:53 pm
Someone asked if I’d show the eBay listing for the old Powermac I was selling to help offset a bit of the new Mac Pro’s cost.
Here it is.
It’s a G4 AGP Powermac with a dual processor 1.3 gigahertz Powerlogix upgrade and 2 gigabytes of ram, a 7200 rpm 120 gig hard drive, and a ATI […]
Site changes
February 28th 2007 at 9:04 am
You might have noticed some changes. The biggest one was on the right hand sidebar. I yanked the ads. I emailed the group, Pajamas Media, that I was a part of. I felt the ads were slowing down load times and just getting in the way, sometimes they were loading funny or in various sizes.
I […]
Amazon review contest winners
February 28th 2007 at 7:00 am
Last week I offered readers a chance to review Crystal Rain on Amazon.com to win Ragamuffin ARCs. Mark Terry and Stella won the contest. If you guys email me (tobias@tobiasbuckell.com) your snail mail addresses I’ll off and send you your copies.
About.com needs an SF/F guide
February 27th 2007 at 4:50 pm
D.Geiser writes:
I was surfing around the About.com web site and noticed that they no longer
have a guide for their About Sci-Fi/Fantasy section, http://scifi.about.com/.
I’m way too busy for this, but right now someone with interest in the field should apply so that we can take it over. It’s a great ‘gateway’ to all sorts of things, […]
Mojopac and carry-and-go personal computing
February 27th 2007 at 2:54 pm
On a panel in Boskone I said I was intrigued by the idea of putting your operating system and important files on a portable storage device (like a 16 gig USB thumb drive on a necklace) or on a small wallet sized hard drive (like your iPod).
Mojopac lets you do this with your iPod and […]
Hard work and a reward
February 27th 2007 at 2:29 am
I’ve been plugging away hard at different projects, and I’m in a particularly good mood. Emily and I have been working away hard at painting our dining/tv room in a mustard color. We put 3 coats on, and the room has transformed from a dingy den with false-wood paneling that felt like a windowless basement […]
What does blogging do for a writer?
February 27th 2007 at 12:50 am
Paolo Bacigalupi asks the title question.
I see some people blogging quite successfully, but often it seems they developed their blogging brand before they developed their writing brand. They had something to say, a dead horse to beat, what have you, and they built an audience around it. I’m wondering if people either have experience with […]
New tech for the rest of us column
February 26th 2007 at 5:45 pm
Over at Bloggingstocks.com I did a new Tech For the Rest of Us column called saving money and making life easier with RSS:
Did you know you can use RSS feeds to easily keep track of sales on eBay Inc. (NASDAQ:EBAY) and Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), hunt for specific search terms, find a job, or deliver the […]
Blogging Jobs
February 26th 2007 at 12:55 pm
Deborah Ng at About.com has been doing an excellent job keeping up on blog job postings. If you’re interested in this field a bunch of interesting jobs were posted today.
