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“Breached defenses” posted

Back to Witches this week for "Breached defenses": Hardi blinked. "I think I'm done here," she muttered as she stood with her tray. "Have a good day, Dr. Yuk." "Robert," he said around another mouthful of food, "and it really helps if you soften the 'u'. Make it just a bit more ...

“Expanding Borders” posted

Got a new Transhuman Congress story posted, this one finally introducing -- sort of -- the leader of the majority party, Chelsea Sears. "Expanding Borders": The doctors told me that I was stuck in my own head. I wasn't. I was in the nets all the time, doing ten things at ...

“The welcome goodbye” posted

Well, it's not quite still Saturday, but as promised, here's a new Witches story, called "The welcome goodbye": "Harding." Hardi stopped pacing. "Why are you so hot under the collar for this project?" Jim asked quietly. Hardi opened and closed her mouth. "I just... I want to do something about this." Now I'm going to ...

“Entering Valhalla” posted

Moving a bit in the timeline of the Transhuman Congress to the late 25th century with "Entering Valhalla": "There's no way you finished Mueller's game already! Sweet kittens, that fifth scenario is ridiculous!" Nana whined. Viktoriya sighed and pulled a short blue dress from her closet. "Just use a slingshot around Cyrus. ...

Another story series started

Whoo. If you can believe it, I'm starting up a second story series, tentatively titled "The Witches of Ming Ung", which will be published on Wednesdays. Transhuman Congress will continue to be published on Saturdays. "Witches" is a fixed-length series, so it won't just be me splashing around in ...

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 ...