Month: October 2010
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The only acceptable use for DRM
I’d been aware for some time that a lot of libraries had embraced the ability to check out ebooks, but not until this weekend did I get around to actually trying it. I was quite pleased to discover that both of our local libraries, the Seattle Public Library and the King County Library System, provide…
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Lament of the Dove status report
Y’all know how I mentioned the scene at the beginning of Chapter 15 was destined to die? Well, I killed it–and added in a bit of extra content in the new first scene of the chapter, tying a bit more in to how the previous one closed. This means that all told I’ve killed nearly…
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Book Log #71: The Falcon at the Portal, by Elizabeth Peters
The first time I read through The Falcon at the Portal, book #11 of the Amelia Peabodies, I pretty much wanted to smack Nefret upside the head for what she pulls partway through the book. I am sorry to say that my impression on my recent re-read of her actions in this story have not…
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Fuzzy Cat is Fuzzy
George claims my lap at least two or three times a day. More on the weekends! This is George after he climbed onto me this morning.
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Book Log #70: A River in the Sky, by Elizabeth Peters
The most recent of the long-running Amelia Peabody series, A River in the Sky, is also unfortunately thus far the weakest for me in the series to date. Like Guardian of the Horizon, it’s one of the “lost journals” of the Emerson saga, going back and filling in gaps of time between previously written books.…
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Book Log #69: Guardian of the Horizon, by Elizabeth Peters
By publishing order, Guardian of the Horizon is book #16 of the Amelia Peabody series. Chronologically, however, it is book #11, falling in time not too long after The Ape Who Guards the Balance. It’s one of two (as of the writing of this review) books that fill in the gap of time between Balance…
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Book Log #68: The Ape Who Guards the Balance, by Elizabeth Peters
The tenth Amelia Peabody novel, The Ape Who Guards the Balance, opens with one of my very favorite scenes in the entire series: Amelia barging out to participate in a suffragette rally in London, ready, willing, and even eager to get herself arrested for the cause of women’s rights. Never mind how she winds up…
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Power outage over, Murkworks services back
Back up a little behind schedule, but solarbird got our services running again and nothing appears to have fried itself. As always, please apprise me or Dara if anything on the site does not behave in the manner intended! We now return you to your regularly scheduled Internetz, already in progress.
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How much does my To Read list weigh?
I was saying something on the MurkMUSH about how I had 690 things on my To Read list, like I do, and to my amusement technoshaman said that I’d have to look out–or else my To Read list was going to eventually weigh more than I do. I told him I thought it probably already…
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Help Felix Find a Cure update
I’m informed by the woman who’s directing our Help Felix Find a Cure campaign that if people would like to donate to it without buying the multimedia package we’re selling, then checks made out to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation may be mailed to Big Fish Games, ATTN: Kate Brinks. On the memo field of…