Monthly Archives: January 2003
Palm Pilot; Criticism
Posted on January 29, 2003 1 Comment
One rather unexpected side benefit from my whole recent computer meltdown fracas is that I’ve found myself in possession of a Palm Pilot — an m125 Palm Pilot, which if I follow the Palm Pilot nomenclature correctly is sort of their “Accord” model: Not exactly a Kia, but not as full-featured as a Beemer. I […]
Bad Mechanical Karma
Posted on January 27, 2003 2 Comments
First, an exchange between me and Athena. It helps to know that she just learned how to count to three in Spanish. Got that? Okay, then: Me: Hey, Athena. Say ‘three’ in Spanish. Athena: Three in Spanish. Just in case any of you were wondering if she was really my kid. *** I suspect that […]
Salon’s New Deal; Editing
Posted on January 22, 2003
After a trial period earlier last year, Salon has decided to go ahead with a new way to stay alive, which is to allow non-subscribers to view its content — if they agree to view an ad first. Essentially, Salon is doing this because its subscription model is a big fat failure. David Talbot, Salon’s […]
Busy Redux; Academic Emergency
Posted on January 16, 2003
I know, I haven’t exactly been a world-class updater these last couple of weeks. My excuse is the same as it was last week around this time: I’ve been hella busy, and it’s been the good “damn if my writing career isn’t just totally coming around” sort of busy as opposed to the bad “holy […]
Steve Case is Smart
Posted on January 13, 2003
Steve Case is stepping down as Chairman of AOL Time Warner sometime in May, and that pretty much clears the deck at AOLTW of any major executives in the company that came from the AOL side of things. AOL may have swallowed Time Warner, but Time Warner then digested AOL from the inside, eventually bursting […]
OMW Followup
Posted on January 4, 2003
It’s been an interesting couple of days here at the Scalzi household, in the wake of the announcement about my book contract with Tor. I’m getting a lot of questions about the deal and what I’m doing from here, so I thought I’d answer a few of the questions that have been posed to me […]
Change in Plans
Posted on January 3, 2003
So, there’s been a slight change of plans. As you may remember (surely 2002 isn’t too hazy yet), I serialized my most recent science fiction novel, Old Man’s War, here in December, and this month I was going to put it up as shareware, a la Agent to the Stars. Well, I won’t be doing […]
The Child on the Train
Posted on January 1, 2003
About a week after Krissy completed the first trimester of her pregnancy, she went in to the doctor to have a routine checkup for herself and her baby. While she was being examined, the doctor had difficulty finding the baby’s heartbeat. This in itself was not unusual — at just over three months, a fetus […]
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