Women in alternate history
A couple of years ago, I wrote an entry about gender balance among authors of works nominated for the Sidewise...
Exhaustion
Am very tired. Quick update, then off to bed. (Ever notice how when I say "quick" I mean "only a...
My weekend travel
I had ridiculously good air-travel luck this weekend. Short and easy security experiences, no significant hassles with flights. Two of...
TSA prohibited items
The US Transportation Security Administration has updated its Prohibited Items list. If you're traveling by air in the US anytime...
Small superpowers
As I've probably mentioned before, one of my favorite superpowers is that of Stone Boy, of the Legion of Substitute...
Still more on gender bias in sf
We at Strange Horizons have just about filled up our publishing schedule for 2006, and have started on 2007. Interestingly, even though still only about 33% to 40% of our submissions are by women, in 2006 two-thirds of the stories we're publishing are by women.
Disorganized
You'd think that if I were traveling across the country to a wedding, I might, for example, find out who...
Sleepy update
Sorry so little journaling lately. (And I've been even more remiss over at Neology. I do still plan to get...
Words easily confused #17
Been a while since I've done one of these. For previous installments, see my Words easily confused category. (Wrote most...
Uploading photos from Mac to web
A couple months ago, I mentioned that Google is now providing a photo-hosting service, Picasa Web Albums. At the time,...
Semi-offline
For the past two days, my cable modem has been intermittently stopping working for several hours at a time, then...
HB2M
Just a quick sleepy post to say: Happy 35th birthday, Mary Anne!...