If I had XM, I’d switch to Sirius for this reason alone: In early September, Sirius Satellite Radio kicked The Word Network off the air — for good. In the meantime, Sirius is adding programming that insults the values of The Word Network and our millions of listeners. – from Save The Word Network. I’m […]

If you’re ever interested in joining the Science Fiction Book Club – the only book club I’ve ever belonged to that sends me selections I actually read – please let me know, because if you join through me I get a free book. Seriously. And free books are so good. Especially with summer ending and […]

More cute Google goodness: Google Reader. It’s in beta, of course.

In which I discover I hadn’t moved my old old blog folder over to the new server. Gregg tagged me with a ‘meme’. I forgive him because not only does he have three G’s in his first name, but he’s also a man who isn’t gay and yet still occasionally comments on my blog. (My […]

Japanese music industry calls for an ‘iPod tax’: The industry has asked the Japanese government to charge a royalty, to be added to the retail price of portable digital music players like Apple’s iPod, which has been explosively popular here. Money earned from the fee, likely to be 2 percent to 5 percent of the […]

One of my favorite programs of all time, meaning I’ve run it on absolutely every Windows box I’ve ever had access to since ’98 came out (which is a lot of boxen), is TClock. It’s a free little program that replaces your taskbar clock and, among other things, displays the day and date next to […]

In which I’m link-happy. Today, I worked on the site a little. I think it’s officially completely moved now – I got my dad’s blog all snuggled in, and I fixed the problems with my Gallery so it works now, and I even imported some older images. The farm looks so cool on film. And […]

In which I saw dawn this morning, and hated it. I, life-long night person, am on Brett’s schedule. *shudder* Last night I went to bed at 8:30, and I got up this morning at 5:30! HOW GROSS IS THAT??!??!?!? Hopefully it won’t last.

In which I bemoan the loss of my twenty-something body… even though it’s been gone for, like, seventeen years. God, I hate exercising. I don’t think I make the right endorphins. People are always going on about how they ‘feel so good’ after working out. It makes me sick because I feel nothing but tired […]

I think I want a new Pocket PC instead of an iPod nano for my b-day. The geek in me is tempted to get a Sharp Zaurus simply because it runs a Linux shell, but the penny pincher in me thinks of all the software I’ve purchased over the years for WinCE and Pocket PC […]