Tom Clancy answers the question “What’s next?” It’s hard to have an action hero that gets constant Secret Service protection, so it was fairly obvious that former president Jack Ryan was finished as a protagonist for his books. I saw a few tentative starts with some net police stories and some other stuff, but nothing […]
Not sure what was wrong there, for a while, but I’m back on the air. The problem started out with the server disappearing, then grew into something more mysterious as time went on. But I’ll make up for it with a lot to say this morning.
OK, WordPress has a new version, so I ported one of my favorite projects The Chessmill to it. The new “pages” system looked like it was going to work. Regular readers know I’ve been using Mambo — no, this doesn’t mean I’m moving away from it. I still use it; I just don’t like depending […]
Stopped in for a while ay Wikkipedia (There’s no link because it’s not worth it). Here’s the basic concept, see if you can spot the flaw: Everyone is an expert on something, so everyone is welcome to write/edit an entry in this conglomeration. That way we can take advantage of the collective knowledge of the […]
The rise of the mega-book. Susanna Clarke’s first novel has a good sales run at the moment, and it’s up for Hugo. With some difficulty, I read it. Well, perhaps “read it” is too strong a term. At several points along the way, my eyes frankly glazed over, and I skipped pages. An actual page […]
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