O tech, here is thy sting
The latest ~entertaining~ move in the technofailure game: My MacBook has started abruptly shutting itself down. By which I mean...
A city that takes its fireworks seriously
From up here on Mary Anne's roof, at 11 p.m. on July 3rd, I can see two extensive neighborhood fireworks...
First day total
During the first 24 hours of being open to subs again, we received 73 stories. The previous one-day record was...
More about the next-door murders
The San José Mercury has more details about the people who were killed next door to me over the weekend....
WorldCon suite sublet?
Some of us have been talking about putting together an afternoon party at WorldCon, ideally on Friday or Saturday of...
This morning’s comment spam
Got interesting comment spam this morning from someone using the name "Robert." He or she posted two comments (one on...
Jed the Unready
I just barely got the MailTemplate plugin installed and working last night before we reopened to subs and the onslaught...
Autoresponder for Mail.app?
I need a way to automatically send responses to received email using Mail.app in OS X Leopard. Can any of...
Home safe, but a little freaked out
Flight home was largely uneventful. Kam picked me up at the airport, and we went to a new Ethiopian place...
Technology doesn’t like me much (and I’m not so sure about it)
It occurred to me sometime in the past week or two that my latest spate of Issues has been (mostly)...
Done, finally
As of this afternoon, we've replied to every story ever submitted to Strange Horizons. If you've ever sent us a...
Nancy Pearl interviews William Gibson tomorrow night in Seattle
As a benefit for Clarion West's 25th anniversary, Nancy Pearl ("Seattle's own rock star librarian" and the only librarian with...