ECTACO jetBook: Built-In WiFi Coming?
I’m asking ECTACO directly about this. I got a bit of a shock with YahooMail moments ago. Not one of their usual useless banner ads. This one was aimed right at me: Composite image. Click = big. Of...
View ArticleThe Horror Of Paper Books
This is a post I’ve kept putting off. Things happen. Then Wayne MacPhail tweeted this photo he took inside a bookstore: It gave me a feeling of absolute horror — and I knew the time had come to...
View ArticleBlog Notes: 1
We race towards Zero Hour here! There are less than twenty-four hours left to this blog! “But,” people ask, “What will you do after this?” My fingers will still be busy: With a series of children’s...
View ArticleInterster Episode Two: Saboteur
The basic story is this. Earth is testing a new Star Cruiser, the SK Woltemade, that has a powerful weapon. The Krokons are still intent on gaining inroads against Earth. Buks de la Rey is assigned to...
View ArticleReading Is An Investment In Thinking
The Long Decline of Reading It takes hours to finish a book, even for the fastest readers. This wasn’t a problem when books had less competition, but with the three massive timesinks of cable TV,...
View ArticleFollow Arjun Basu On Twitter
And you’ll get a wonderful story in a tweet. He calls these “Twisters.” This is a collection of some from the past few days: Follow Arjun Basu on Twitter.
View ArticleBut It’s Still A Fine Madness
Some Days Are Better Than Others I’m sure that all of you who write have experienced it. Things seem to be going well. The words are coming out smoothly. You’re in the flow. And then… You hit that...
View ArticleWriter Jeff Schult Has A New Blog
Into Temptation: Sexual Networks, Culture and Society “Into Temptation” is a not-necessarily safe-for-work (or anywhere else) forum about evolving social-sexual networks and how they have changed and...
View ArticleLeverage: The Bank Shot Job
The usual yelling at you: If you haven’t yet caught up with Leverage on TNT, you’re depriving yourself of the best new TV series of 2008. Roll credits: The team are scamming a corrupt judge in a...
View ArticleThe Conclusion Of Mike Cane 2008
Pull the strings! Pull the strings! And for a year, I have. I had no frikkin idea what nearly a solid year of blogging would be like. Dear God. I am wiped out! Some days made me absolutely fucking...
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