Daily Archives: March 1, 2011
General E-Mail Note
Posted on March 1, 2011 5 Comments
I have now to the best of my ability caught up with all outstanding e-mail EXCEPT Big Idea queries, which I will probably deal with tomorrow. So if in the last couple of weeks you had sent me an e-mail for which you were hoping for a response but did not get one, please feel […]
Tor.com Best SFF of the Decade Results: OMW Is In
Posted on March 1, 2011 32 Comments
Oh, hey, look: the results of the Tor.com readers poll of the best science fiction and fantasy novels of the last decade (actually eleven years, but who’s counting?) are out, and Old Man’s War showed up on the final list. Yay! Want to see where on the list it landed? Want to see what else […]
What I’ve Learned With the Cr-48
Posted on March 1, 2011 61 Comments
As most of you know, some time ago Google sent along to me one of their Cr-48 computers, the computer being a test bed to try out Google’s Chrome operating system, in which nearly everything one does is cloud-dependent — that is, in order for it to work, you need to have Internet access all […]
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