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Bujold’s Mirror Dance

I've got a big crush on Miles Vorkosigan. He's got a sense of style that appealed to me as soon as I read Young Miles back in the day. He's not so silly as to be fearless, but is manic enough to keep getting embroiled in shit and ...

Inflation!

So I'm filling up my library from memory, and I've just discovered the best way to "bloat" it ever. See, back in elementary and middle school, I lived near a Half-price Book Store. During one trip, I discovered... Star Trek books. ...I bought them. All of them. So now I have ...

Won over by Pratchett

A few months ago, I was cajoled into reading [tag]Soul Music[/tag], by [tag]Terry Pratchett[/tag]. Couldn't stand it. I got at least half way through, and found it to be boring and the humor contrived. A couple of weeks ago, though, I picked up [tag]Going Postal[/tag], and proceeded to laugh ...

Matthew Wayne Selznick’s Brave Men Run

[tag]Brave Men Run[/tag] is a free audiobook that I listened to this summer while working. It's the tale of Nate Charters, a high schooler with a few extra abilities, like heightened senses. After years of hiding his abilities, it turns out he's not alone, and the Sovereigns (other specially-powered folks) ...

Steven H. Wilson’s Taken Liberty

[tag]Taken Liberty[/tag] is a free audiobook that I listened to (mostly) at work this summer. The summary from the above-linked website: The Confederated Worlds are unparalleled as a society of free people, yet, somehow, slavery still manages to exist. Aer'La, a non-human, was bred to serve as a pleasure slave. ...

Awesome trumpets: no longer an oxymoron

Curt Ramm played with They Might Be Giants in Wednesday and last Friday's shows, and I'll admit, he's given me more than a little crush on the trumpet. I'm sure Greg will be jealous. I can't find much in terms of videos of him except for Bruce Springsteen ...

Quasi-daily linkage

10 Usability Crimes You Really Shouldn’t Commit - Nice and easy list to follow. I fixed a silly problem on my site this morning courtesy of the reminder. Clients From Hell : The client calls around 9 PM on a Saturday... - “[very angry] I am reading your email in ...

I’ll be damned – more WP trouble

I was fixing a webcomic issue on Greg's blog, and I'll be damned if from one minute to the next, it didn't suffer from an index.php injection, too. This is weird as hell. A bunch of spurious content appeared on his homepage, although clicking through to those posts ...