• Archive for January, 2006

    From Somewhere Near Khao San

    by  • January 31, 2006 • PERSONAL • 2 Comments

    Hey. We made it here, last night, exhausted but in one piece. We just got tickets to Krabi tomorrow, and beach beach beach. I must be old or something, as this appeals to me more than it used to. Or maybe I’m just looking forward to getting out of Bangkok. The part I’m in...

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    By the Way

    by  • January 30, 2006 • PERSONAL • 4 Comments

    There’s one more little clause in my contract which I need to consider carefully when running this site… Please Login or Register to read the rest of this content.

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    Scalzi’s SF Film List

    by  • January 30, 2006 • FILMS&TV • 5 Comments

    If you are a regular reader of blogs, you might have encountered the Scalzi SF films list at places like Ethel the Frog, Byzantium’s Shores, or Pharyngula (or at Scalzi’s own site, of course). The meme as it is online now is to bold the ones you’ve seen. So here goes: The Adventures of...

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    St. Etienne’s Song

    by  • January 30, 2006 • PERSONAL • 2 Comments

    The one I’m thinking of remains in my memory only as a title: “Can’t Sleep”. I can’t sleep right now, so I thought I would share in some of the amusements of camp. Whilst teachers enjoyed the remnants of a huge fire from earlier in the evening: … Shawn decided, not having shown his...

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    Che Doctorow: Copyfighter

    by  • January 29, 2006 • ASIDES • 0 Comments

    Heh, I am glad that my credit card applicaiton was approved, because Look at this! Now I’ve simply got to get a credit card. And no, I didn’t get one. Kim Crowed again. But I’m told Samsung will probably give me one. Link above ganked from somewhere on Cory’s site.

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    The Data

    by  • January 29, 2006 • PERSONAL • 1 Comment

    One thing I’ve become conscious of is my need to save and backup data. I spent about an hour today going through various folders containing my writing and I know now that I need to come up with some kind of seriously stable, centralized backup system — something that is easily updated, easily synchronized,...

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    Different Meanings of “Colonize”…

    by  • January 29, 2006 • ASIDES • 0 Comments

    The bits I agreed with in this article on colonization of space and colonization in history at The Space Review only had the effect of making me feel more uneasy about the bits I disagreed with. Colonization in the past always involved other humans, which is a big difference. Though I think if Mars...

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