Posted in Science Fiction on March 8, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I just finished reading Marsbound by Joe Haldeman as a serial in Analog SF. The book won’t be published until August but all parts of the serial can be found at Fictionwise.com. I got to study with Joe Haldeman and his wife Gay for a week in 2002 when I attended the Clarion West Writer’s [...]
Posted in Science Fiction on March 8, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I love science fiction short stories so it’s a pleasure to discover BestScienceFictionStories.com. And yesterday Rusty posts his list of “The 10 Best Web Sites for Free Online Science Fiction Stories.” Even though the print magazines are losing subscribers short stories are finding new venues on the web. This site is slowly recognizing and reviewing [...]
Posted in Blogging on March 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’ve always meant to write a “Why I Blog” post and now that I’m listening to The Cult of the Amateur by Andrew Keen this seems like a great time to do it. I googled Keen and many of the reviewers I read just dismissed him out of hand. Keen is essentially calling all us [...]
Posted in Fiction, Philosophy, Science Fiction on March 6, 2008 | 9 Comments »
What is your personal science fiction fantasy? Let’s say you die and wake up in front of a superior being and he/she/it tells you to pick your next life, what would it be? You can pick anything from reality, your own imagination or from any fictional world you’ve encountered. It’s a big multiverse out there [...]
Posted in Information, Internet, Inventions, Web on March 4, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’ve worked with computers for decades and backing up has always been a hassle - both at work and at home. I used to have a tape system for home but it became impractical years ago when hard drive space far outpaced the expense of tape drive technology. In recent times I’ve been using external [...]
Posted in Information, Internet on March 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Every time I use Google, especially when I’m trying to find a product review, I’m overwhelmed with sites that are trying to sell me something. Any word in my search term can set off a signal to bombard me with results from vendors. I don’t mind the Adsense listings in the right column, but the paid [...]
