Category: General
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Just a small update to say that yes, despite rumors to the contrary, this blog is still alive. What’s kept me busy? My Earth:2025 rewrite is coming along nicely – hopefully I’ll have a decent beta version within the next 6-8 weeks. My 3rd novel is just shy of halfway done, and I’ve been working…
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If you’re, like me, one of those people who dual boots Windows XP + Linux, you might have discovered ex2fsd, which allows you to access your ext2/ext3 volumes while you’re using Windows. Recently, I suddenly found myself unable to access my /home/nate/Music directory on my ext3 volume which had previously functioned properly. Windows started telling…
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Kaavya Viswanathan got six figures for writing a story about a geek who needed to party more in order to get into Harvard, or something like that. Given the scope of the plagiarism (at least 40 documented instances, according to Random House) scandal that has hit the news, this is really depressing somehow. Apparently if…
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I’ve been a fan of Lacuna Coil for a couple of years now, but wasn’t hugely impressed with their last album, Comalies. So when Karmacode was released this month, I found myself surprised to be quite addicted. This album has more in common with their earlier work than with Comalies, yet injects some fairly interesting…
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I really cringe at buying new books these days, because my attention span is too limited to bother re-reading most novels and therefore whatever I pay is for the one-time experience. It’s not that I’m unwilling to shell out $20 for a book, but rather that I hate to do so for a book I…
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I hit Yahoo! earlier today looking at the headlines, and just above the news on the right, a Flash ad caught my eye. I hate it when ads catch my eyes, especially stupid ones with cheesy dancing flowers. In any case, it turned out to be an ad for the 2007 Dodge Caliber, some sort…
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I finally had the opportunity and the time to see Neil Gaiman’s Mirrormask this evening. I was rather underwhelmed by Gaiman’s novel American Gods, so I wasn’t really sure what to expect seeing Gaiman on the screen. Still, knowing his graphic novel background, I was hoping for better screen translation of his imagination than I…
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Every now and then, I get the urge to draw, and so for better or worse, this is my latest attempt. Enjoy. (Click to make it larger!) (c)2006 Nathaniel Simpson
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I’m still alive, yes. A couple of things. I’ve completely finished my aforementioned second novel, including multiple editing posts. The only thing it lacks now is a title, and a publisher. With any luck, this will make it as my first novel to be officially published. Want to read it ahead of that? Send me…
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A while ago, I posted about Ann Coulter’s “Purpose-Driven Left”, where she went on for a while about how Ashley Smith, by reading aloud from The Purpose-Driven Life, “about serving God by serving others,” was able to save the Atlanta judge-killer’s life, and her own, after she was taken hostage. I still get the odd…
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