What I’ve been up to
Been a while since I've posted anything about what I've been doing. Not really sure where the first half of...
Belated happy launch anniversary to Strange Horizons!
It was nine years and three weeks ago that Strange Horizons launched. I mentioned that in passing in mid-August, during...
9
I thought I'd been hearing good things about the new movie 9, and I certainly liked the look of it...
How to find MySQL in Snow Leopard
Just discovered that in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, the directory /usr/local/mysql no longer exists. Which means that if...
Backup day
I hereby declare today to be Back Up Your Data Day. Today, I recommend doing a backup that you don't...
Happy holidays!
It's once again that time of year, when some major religious holidays and a secular holiday or two all happen...
Satellite contemplating observatory contemplating satellite
I fairly often take photos of friends who are taking photos; sometimes they're even taking photos of me taking photos...
Libana: A Circle Is Cast (rounds and chants) in iTunes Store
Libana is a world music ensemble focused on "the traditional and contemporary music and dance of the world's women." I...
Items: Friday morning linkery
A few cute and/or fun tidbits (mostly visual) from skimming the last couple days' worth of Twitter: Neat videos of...
Dialogue about racism in fan communities
Smart and interesting discussion in the latest issue of Transformative Works and Cultures: "Pattern recognition: A dialogue on racism in...
Burning Man from space
Kam sent me a photo of Black Rock City 2009, apparently from space. Nifty! It's very high resolution; if your...
Standards compliance as a browser add-on
It turns out that SVG, a web standard for displaying scalable vector graphics, has been quietly growing in popularity and...