Sterling amongst the Children’s Books
Here are some photos of Bruce Sterling from the reading in Chicago last night. I’m still getting used to digital photography, so forgive any weirdnesses. I do like the ease with which I could correct the woozy 15 degrees of list to port of the photos with Graphic Converter. Digital cameras and editing are the [...]
Shiromi
I have seen before, from Technorati and via the referer list, that there is a link from Shiromi’s weblog to mine, in his sidebar of favorite blogs. I find it kind of interesting, because I don’t know Shiromi and as far as I can tell, my blog is unlike every other he cites. Most of [...]
Shockwave Rider
I finished Shockwave Rider by John Brunner this week. I absolutely loved this book. It was interesting that 30 years after writing it a lot of it rings true as a description of current life. The technology is different, of course, but the feeling that people have of being overwhelmed and out of control in [...]
Worldchanging
At the book signing, I took a few minutes and chatted with the dude from WorldChanging asking him if they could do a full-text RSS feed. Well, I checked the site today and see that one is in fact there. I doubt they did it overnight, so probably it was already been there for a [...]
Bruce Sterling at Barbara’s
I went to Bruce’s book event last night. I was a little surprised at the turnout - 25 people by my count. On the other hand, it was only a fluke that I even knew about the event in time, so maybe it wasn’t that surprising. Because of the craplousy Chicago traffic I got there [...]
Bruce Sterling in Chicago
I saw on LaGringa a note that Bruce Sterling is on a signing tour. Interesting, says I, let’s see if he will be stopping in Chicago. Yes, he is. When? Tonight!
Chicago, IL Thursday, April 29th @ 7:30 PM
Talk & Signing
Barbara’s Bookstore
1100 Lake StreetOak Park, IL 60301
Phone: (708) 848-9140
I belive I might be stopping by for [...]
Achewood For Geeks
The painfully brilliant comic strip Achewood now has an RSS feed! It could be slightly better by having an img reference to the strip itself, rather than just a link to that day’s strip but it is a start. I love the strip, but I’m guilty of forgetting to look at it for weeks or [...]
Atlanta Government
I swear to god, almost every dealing I have had with any bureaucrat in either the city of Atlanta government or in Fulton County, from when we moved there in 2000 to this day, has been absolutely hellish. Simple damn things are difficult, difficult things are impossible. Everyone I talk to sounds pissed off to [...]
Registered Shrook
Yesterday I got the notice that a newer version of Shrook was available for download. This was supposed to address the crashing problems I have. I downloaded it, and while I was time limited to 15 minutes by virtue of my unregistered state, it never crashed in two full 15 minute sessions so that was [...]
Texas going for classroom eBooks
Via Slashdot comes this story of a school in Texas is giving students laptops with ebooks for their textbooks. Interesting. God knows, I’d have loved to carry a single Thinkpad to my Georgia Tech classes, rather than the 50 pounds of textbooks I humped around. Of course, I’d rather be one of the students in [...]
Jon Kincaid Benefit Concert
On Thursday May 6th at the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta will be a benefit concert to help Jon Kincaid with his medical bills. This will feature the original lineups of both drivin ‘n cryin and The Nightporters, so for an evening Little Five Points will be back in the mid 80’s again. This is a [...]
Week 4
My weight this week was 238 - down 2 pounds from last week and 8 pounds overall. I’m actually a little surprised by that. Because I was sick last week, I fled to some comfort foods and wasn’t very active for last half of the week. I had a Starbucks mocha, deep-fried sweet-and-sour chicken, a [...]
Blankets
This weekend I read the graphic novel Blankets by Craig Thompson. It is a massive tome, almost 600 pages long, but well worth the read. I thought it was brilliant, and it left me feeling melancholy. I was surprised by how much I had with the (semi or perhaps totally) autobiographical protagonist. We both grew [...]
Adobe and JPEG Patent
In his post about the Forgent lawsuits over the soon-to-expire JPEG patent, David Rothman points out a certain ironic poetic justice in the company that leaned so hard on Dmitry Sklyarov for his DMCA “violation” in pointing out their weakness getting busted on an IP violation. Adobe is another group that I have little [...]
Partition Heck
I was able to get my Debian install disk to recognize all 20G of my hard drive. To do that, first I had to download the PowerMax utility from Maxtor. This created a diskette from which I booted and then was able to run some diagnostics and do a low level format. After that, Debian [...]
NNTP from the Grave
I got a little bit of a shock from reading my Dueling Modems groups today. I seldom make it all the way to the bottom of my subscription, so most days I read until I run out of time. There are groups that I only get to every few months, if that. Not that long [...]
Ebooks, E-ink, E-yawn
I link less to this slashdot item about an e-ink driven ebook reader and more to the discussion thread. Starting with the very first comment, you see all the same bullshit few remarks I always see in ebook conversations. It’s to the point where I can map out what people will say before they do, [...]
Backsliding
I think I had a bit of a virus or cold or something yesterday. It’s hard to tell because the pollen and my allergies have been bad enough that I’ve been sneezing and snotting for a month regardless. I had the shivers for a while last evening, then I felt like I was burning up [...]
Partition Hell
I have a computer that was a Win2K box for several years. Last week it stopped booting because of some corruption on the hard drive. I tried to repair that and just made it worse, essentially hosing the partition table on the hard drive. I decided to just wipe the HD and install Debian Linux [...]
Webwork2 Vs. Struts
One of my coworkers is a big proponent of Webwork2 as a Java serverside framework. He suggests that it is much more efficient than using Struts. Here’s a link he forwarded me that compares the two. I think I’m sold.
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