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Book: Sun of Suns: Virga

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Found this book via Boing Boing and ordered it along with several others for reading over Christmas in Colorado. With the power outage, I had the chance to get through it last week. All in all … Read more

First Ski Day of 2007

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Family went skiing for the first time this year tonight at Steven’s Pass. I burst my S1/L5 disc in my back a few months ago and I just had another cortezone epidural injection yesterday. I was … Read more

Simon of Space is compete!

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Simon of Space is complete. The last chapter has been posted. I’m shocked that the major outlets (/., BoingBoing, etc…) have not picked up on this phenomenon.  http://simonofspace.blogspot.com You can now order a printed book version: … Read more

Blogging from Flickr

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Classic Kona Look Originally uploaded by ckindel. Playing with Flickr tonight… I just discovered that Flickr lets you post blog entries from Flickr to just about any blog engine, including .Text. So this is a test … Read more

Seriously, read Simon of Space

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I wrote about it before, but it warrants more attention: The online SciFi novel being presented as a blog titled Simon of Space is simply fantastic. Start reading it today at http://simonofspace.blogspot.com. Every day I look … Read more

First Darth Vader and now Simon

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I Am A Cheeseburger (http://mfdh.ca/) is an immensly talented author who has been publishing some very creative things on various “Blogs”. I first discovered his Darth Vader’s Blog this spring and now am thoroughly enjoying Simon … Read more

CATCHPA is Hip

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Comment spam has been driving me nuts. I implemented a blacklist based fliter a while back which stopped a bunch of it, but ever week 100’s of bogus comments got through because the blacklist was not … Read more

Old Man’s War

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I wish I could read more books. I love reading. That’s the problem. I start a book, and if it’s any good, I read it cover to cover in one sitting. Even if it takes me … Read more

6mbps for less $

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I’ve been having some issues with Comcast lately. First my bill seemed high and second they kept declining pay-per-views. Of course we were trying to watch pay-per-view movies on our family movie night (Saturday) and when … Read more

The Bomb In My Garden

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  It is a small world and I always get a kick out of discovering connections between seemingly unrelated people and events. A few weeks ago I received a mailing from my high-school alma-mater, The Webb … Read more

Visual INTERCAL?

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I’ve been a programmer for 20+ years now, so you can imagine how dumb I felt today when I first read about the INTERCAL programming language. INTERCAL was invented in 1973 by Jim Lyon and Don … Read more