Startling new discovery
At great personal risk, I have ventured forth and discovered a new and startling fact, which I'm sure will come...
Archive for Internet
Temporary mail outage
My mail system has thrown away most of the mail that it received in the past four to eight hours....
Data channel for conversations
Every so often, my friend Rob S calls, and we have a long conversation that touches on half a dozen...
Wikipedia and sf
Kathryn Cramer just posted a proposal that SF author bios should be posted to the ISFDB wiki instead of to...
Items: Technology and society
These and the Bussard stuff in the previous entry seem to sort of fit into a general theme, something to...
Old web page contact etiquette
Occasionally, total strangers send me legitimate (non-spam) email out of the blue. This is not surprising, actually. If you've ever...
Tastemakers and reputable influencers
(I wrote most of this a week ago, but forgot to post it.) A while back, I was pleased and...
Saving the future
Imagine you're an 18-year-old computer gamer in Chicago, and you're sitting around at home one evening when someone you don't...
Girls on teh intarweb?????
The other day, I finally got around to reading Cory Doctorow's story "Anda's Game," published in Salon about a year...
Anniversaries
Mary Anne mentioned that yesterday was her and Kevin's thirteenth anniversary (happy anniversary!) (see also her note from last year...