Archive for December, 2010
The End of The Year
December 31st 2010 at 4:49 pm
I’m still trying to finish up a handful of things I wanted done by the end of the year, so I’m not even prepared to think about a rambling look over at the past year. Suffice to say, it was a hell of a lot better than the previous one. I made progress on learning [...]
Tides From The New Worlds Price Increase, Now Available For Nook
December 30th 2010 at 3:38 pm
If you have a Kindle, you can now lend eBooks, if the publisher lets you. As I’m the publisher of Tides From The New Worlds, you can now lend it. As I promised a long while back, after experimenting with price on the title, I’m bumping it up from $2.99 to $4.99. $2.99 did not [...]
We’re baaaack
December 30th 2010 at 11:28 am
So the website is moved over to a new host. Let’s hope we have better luck with traffic here at MediaTemple than we did at Total Choice. Now all I need to do is write something clever that gets linked a lot… …actually I’m sort of busy catching up on work that was slowed down [...]
Moving hosts
December 27th 2010 at 1:12 pm
In case you notice any issues with the site, I am in the process of moving hosts. There may be some DNS propagation issues or minor down time.
Merry Christmas
December 25th 2010 at 1:50 am
iPhone shot of our Christmas tree. Why yes, that decoration is hanging up there with a paperclip, if you look closely. Still one of my favorite iPhone shots this year, though.
Sizing up the universe
December 24th 2010 at 1:36 pm
Start with Buzz Aldrin’s footprint. Neil Armstrong took the iconic photo that ran around the world — it wasn’t the first footprint on the Moon because neither man took a photo of that, but Aldrin’s ridged bootprint will suffice. Blow the footprint up to full size and it fits neatly across two pages in Richard [...]
UK gears up for more high speed rail
December 23rd 2010 at 11:54 am
Those communist bastards that are the Conservative Government of the UK are moving ahead with a second high speed initiative: After seven months in power, the United Kingdom’s Conservative-led government has endorsed the previous Labour Government’s plans for a high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham, a connection that will reduce running times between the [...]
A new Pepper story finished
December 23rd 2010 at 11:43 am
For the last few weeks I’ve been trying to juggle everything that needs done and finish a new story. I finally got my inbox cleared out to 0, wrestled my to do list down, and managed to get to the coffeeshop, my second office, yesterday, for some serious writing. I turned the internet off to [...]
A placebo, even if you know about it, might still help!
December 23rd 2010 at 11:33 am
Here’s an interview with the author of a new study about placebos that might shake things up a bit! A provocative new study called “Placebos Without Deception,” published on PLoS One today, threatens to make humble sugar pills something they’ve rarely had a chance to be in the history of medicine: a respectable, ethically sound [...]
Ain’t no Anthony Bourdain redux
December 22nd 2010 at 3:18 pm
The very lame not-really-an-apology explanation of the infamous Kwanzaa Cake episode that I dinged in a post recently has been yanked from Huffington Post. Jason Robertson emailed me a link to the Google Cache of the article. Meanwhile, HuffPo demonstrates a lack of editorial acumen by first allowing the post, then chickening out and pulling [...]
