Category: General
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Okay, it’s an hour later than I really intended to have it posted. BUT! It’s up. Alice can be officially considered my first novel. It finished up at roughly 51,849 words, which is something like 205 pages of doublespaced Courier 12pt. That makes it a small novel.;-) It’s also a first – the story idea…
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From Amtrak Begins Random ID Checks on Trains: “It is a ticket verification program, which is not intended to determine a person’s identity, but to make sure the person who’s traveling with the ticket is the person whose name is on the ticket,” Black said. When I read the above, I couldn’t quite wrap my…
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I’m sure you’ve been wondering where I’ve been. Well, wonder no more. I’ve been working on a novel! Oddly enough, this is NOT a NaNoWriMo project. I started this last month, and am just about wrapping it up. It will be a short novel, somewhere around 55,000 words*. Look for it around Dec. 1. It’s…
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I gotta say, the internet has changed. I remember the days of using Powwow and FreeTel, of the “chat with a random person” actually being useful on ICQ. These days, the only time I get contacted by a random person online is if a) they’re inserting V1@GR4 spam in my email, or b) they think…
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Compare.:-) (Image sources: http://www.tartcity.com/misspiggy4.jpg, http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20041013/lthumb.mdf727086.jpg)
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Of all people out there, I’m a quite vocal opponent of spamming – that is, unsolicited emails usually advertising some product or other. I know this problem won’t go away anytime soon. Indeed, almost every day I spend 30 minutes to an hour cleaning out literally thousands of spam messages from dozens of inboxes, so…
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On Thursday afternoon, I found myself standing in line at the Royal Ontario Museum in downtown Toronto, waiting to be escorted down into a dusty basement theatre to see Velcrow Ripper’s new documentary, ScaredSacred. Another International Film Festival offering, the film seemed to be a bit off the beaten path, and both my girlfriend and…
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Having just returned from the world premiere of the Stephen Chow film Kung Fu Hustle courtesy of Toronto’s International Film Festival, I thought I’d offer a spoiler-free impression of the film. The film was visually awesome. Lots of great imagery, good special effects, and impressive martial arts throughout. Chow seems to have taken a bit…
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So I was bored Friday evening, and decided to try a few old games out. I like to do this occasionally because once in a while, you run across these gems that validate your search and provide a few hours of non-crappy entertainment. Don’t get me wrong, modern games are visually spectacular but they often…
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Earlier this year, I read an article talking about the reason for computer/technology-related outsourcing. In the article, people like HP’s Carly Fiorina and Intel’s Craig Barrett suggested that the USA should pour more funds into education, particularly in the sciences, to make more workers available in these fields. Initially, I was sorta surprised at this…
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