{"id":3207,"date":"2015-12-02T11:20:43","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T19:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/?page_id=3207"},"modified":"2018-07-15T18:21:02","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T01:21:02","slug":"toc-2003-2013","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/about\/toc\/toc-2003-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"ToC 2003 – 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Monday, March 18, 2013<\/a><\/td>\nPyramids<\/td>\nFrank Ocean’s song<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, March 18, 2013<\/a><\/td>\nSfadb <\/td>\nup to date; next phase<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, March 12, 2013<\/a><\/td>\nLocus Interface<\/td>\nFran Myman visited for a weekend; how to update website\u2026<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, December 18, 2012<\/a><\/td>\nReading and Rereading, Episode 0<\/td>\nhave more time to read [after layoff]; beginning to reread favorite authors<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, November 4, 2012<\/a><\/td>\nCloud Atlas<\/td>\nreview of the film; theme is freedom?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, September 16, 2012<\/a><\/td>\nThe Master<\/td>\nreview of the film<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, September 8, 2012<\/a><\/td>\nChicon 7, Saturday and Sunday panels<\/td>\nfantasy v sf; dangerous; space X; secret history; dinner; NASA; reviewing; reception<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, September 5, 2012<\/a><\/td>\nChicon PS<\/td>\nChicon, not ChiCon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, September 2, 2012<\/a><\/td>\nChicon 7: Hugos and after<\/td>\nnot at pre-ceremony reception; last Locus win; sfadb eligible?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, August 31, 2012<\/a><\/td>\nChicon 7 Friday<\/td>\npanel browsing; Yeong arrived, birthday dinner; Random House party on river boat; parties<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, August 30, 2012<\/a><\/td>\nChicon 7 opening<\/td>\nopening ceremony w\/John Scalzi; stroll thru Millennium Park<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, August 29, 2012<\/a><\/td>\nChicon 7 arrival<\/td>\nflight to Chicago; people in lobby; dinner alone<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, August 27, 2012<\/a><\/td>\nDaily Updates<\/td>\nfacebook; example of work task<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, July 8, 2012<\/a><\/td>\nListening to Bruckner<\/td>\nabout how composers don’t descend into repetition, as some writers do<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, June 24, 2012<\/a><\/td>\nReal Science<\/td>\nPrometheus; what is best film depicting real science?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, March 19, 2012<\/a><\/td>\nTape vs Jiffy Bags<\/td>\nabout review copies and how they’re packed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, February 19, 2012<\/a><\/td>\nReading Notes — Swanwick, McDevitt, Okorafor<\/td>\nDancing with Bears; Firebird; Akata Witch<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, December 31, 2011<\/a><\/td>\nTheme Coraline<\/td>\nabout format of wordpress blog<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, December 29, 2011<\/a><\/td>\nHoliday Notes — website updates, films, iphone<\/td>\nnotes on 9 different films! iPhone as obelisk<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, December 20, 2011<\/a><\/td>\nConsumer Alert: Fie Upon Song Ticketing<\/td>\nlong story about mistakingly ordering concert tickets through Song Ticketing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, October 30, 2011<\/a><\/td>\nWorld Fantasy implementation<\/td>\nFoundation meeting; panels; art show bids; banquet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, October 27, 2011<\/a><\/td>\nWorld Fantasy arrival<\/td>\ndrove thru LA to Town and Country; music in the car<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, October 26, 2011<\/a><\/td>\nWorld Fantasy prelude<\/td>\nleaving for San Diego; Beth Gwinn here; several films including Weekend<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, October 14, 2011<\/a><\/td>\nR.E.M. Lines<\/td>\nselection of favorite lyrics [on occasion of their retirement]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, October 10, 2011<\/a><\/td>\nOctober Country: Amazon.com<\/td>\namazon reinstated california affilitates<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, September 21, 2011<\/a><\/td>\nBook Notes: Sex at Dawn; God, No!<\/td>\nreviews of those two books<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, September 18, 2011<\/a><\/td>\nThe Most Beautiful Music in the World<\/td>\nPriesner’s three tracks, with links<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, September 11, 2011<\/a><\/td>\nContagion<\/td>\nbrief review of the film<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, August 24, 2011<\/a><\/td>\nRenovation Wrap-up<\/td>\npanels, being pointed out by Benford, Hugos; drive home<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, August 19, 2011<\/a><\/td>\nRenovation <\/td>\nat Worldcon in Reno; drove from LA; on two panels<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, August 7, 2011<\/a><\/td>\nA Note about Locus Online’s monitor listings<\/td>\nofficial note on new WordPress Monitor blog<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, July 18, 2011<\/a><\/td>\nThe Joy of Browsing Books<\/td>\nlistings on website will be based on Amazon, etc., rather than physical sightings in bk stores<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, July 1, 2011<\/a><\/td>\nDisAffiliated<\/td>\namazon cutting ties to california affiliates over sales tax issue<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, June 14, 2011<\/a><\/td>\nOne Year of Daily Posts<\/td>\neven while on the cruise<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, June 6, 2011<\/a><\/td>\nOn Seeing The Tree of Life<\/td>\nreview of film, discussion of music; themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, April 14, 2011<\/a><\/td>\nSfadb is Coming<\/td>\nbig project in work, several more weeks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, March 20, 2011<\/a><\/td>\nICFA close-out<\/td>\nConnie Willis; Andrea Hairston; barely left hotel; panel on ‘genre’<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, March 16, 2011<\/a><\/td>\nICFA arrival<\/td>\nin Orlando; United lost my seat reservations; Lambda winners announced<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, February 22, 2011<\/a><\/td>\nKindle Paging<\/td>\nKindle has updated to display page numbers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, February 16, 2011<\/a><\/td>\n2010 reading<\/td>\nonly a couple dozen books all year<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, February 15, 2011<\/a><\/td>\nElizabeth Hand’s Swan of Tuonela<\/td>\nbest story read this month<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, January 31, 2011<\/a><\/td>\nKindle and Facebook<\/td>\ncomments on using Kindle; on Fb since ’07 but only now coming to speed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, January 7, 2011<\/a><\/td>\nReturn to the Mainland<\/td>\nmanaged to post every day; Locus has electronic editions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, January 1, 2011<\/a><\/td>\nHonolulu airport<\/td>\nflight delayed all day; drove around; finally flew out 9.20pm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, December 31, 2010<\/a><\/td>\nNa Pali<\/td>\nMustang convertible to beach at Poipu; cruise along northern coast of Kauai<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, December 31, 2010<\/a><\/td>\nHanalei<\/td>\nnorth shore of Kauai to the end of the road; lu’au and the expansionist urge<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, December 30, 2010<\/a><\/td>\nKona<\/td>\nlava visible from cruise ship; submarine in Kailua Bay<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, December 28, 2010<\/a><\/td>\nKilauea<\/td>\nHilo; rented car to Volcano National Park<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, December 27, 2010<\/a><\/td>\nHaleakala<\/td>\ndrove to the top; Mama’s Fish House<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, December 26, 2010<\/a><\/td>\nKailua<\/td>\nsoutheast Oahu; boarded cruise, left 7pm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, December 25, 2010<\/a><\/td>\nIlikai<\/td>\nChristmas Eve dinner; ready for cruise<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, December 24, 2010<\/a><\/td>\nWaimea, Oahu<\/td>\nrelaxing on the beach; north side of Oahu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, December 22, 2010<\/a><\/td>\nMakaha<\/td>\narrived Hawaii on 10-day trip w\/partner and sons<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, December 13, 2010<\/a><\/td>\nE-Complexity<\/td>\nwhat did people do before they spent so much time backing up their blogs?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, November 4, 2010<\/a><\/td>\nWorld Fantasy Con panels<\/td>\nlong descriptions of several panels<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, October 30, 2010<\/a><\/td>\nWorld Fantasy Con, Columbus OH<\/td>\nhotel, panels, dinner, Locus Foundation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, October 8, 2010<\/a><\/td>\nConsidering issues<\/td>\nchrono links on site<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, September 15, 2010<\/a><\/td>\nEdit Comments<\/td>\nabout having to approve comments to the WP blogs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, September 13, 2010<\/a><\/td>\nButterflies are free to fly<\/td>\nabout Franzen’s Freedom; what are literary novels about? For?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, September 7, 2010<\/a><\/td>\ndrilling down the inbox; hugo results<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, August 29, 2010<\/a><\/td>\nthe most influential writing contest in science fiction history<\/td>\nlong description of WotF ceremony w\/Gary, Amelia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, August 24, 2010<\/a><\/td>\nOn mixed marriages<\/td>\nabout an essay of Gary Westfahl’s; my own situation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, August 18, 2010<\/a><\/td>\nawards site branding<\/td>\nconsidering renaming or re-URLing the site\u2026<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, August 4, 2010<\/a><\/td>\n10 years of index to sf awards<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, July 28, 2010<\/a><\/td>\nNot Splitting the Baby<\/td>\nabout ‘magazines’ vs ‘websites’ on the monitor pages<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, July 24, 2010<\/a><\/td>\nWebsites, Magazines, and Everything in Between<\/td>\nmagazines vs websites, with 18 responses!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, July 22, 2010<\/a><\/td>\nComing Up to Speed<\/td>\nabout posting everyday, and other changes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, June 28, 2015<\/a><\/td>\nDesert Moderne<\/td>\nPalm Springs; architecture tour<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, June 18, 2010<\/a><\/td>\nThe Light at the Bottom of the Inbox<\/td>\nabout email backlog<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, May 27, 2010<\/a><\/td>\nChicago Adventure<\/td>\nJimmy’s graduation from UCI<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, May 21, 2010<\/a><\/td>\nFirst Novels Directories<\/td>\nnew pages on site<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, May 11, 2010<\/a><\/td>\nCache, and RAM<\/td>\nsolution to problems on site<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, May 8, 2010<\/a><\/td>\nGrowing Pains<\/td>\nproblem with site, and super-cache<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, May 2, 2010<\/a><\/td>\nNew Perspectives, Roundtable<\/td>\ntwo blogs rehosted in WordPress; reviews index<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, April 28, 2010<\/a><\/td>\nNew Reviews<\/td>\nreviews are in WP blog<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, April 25, 2010<\/a><\/td>\nNew News<\/td>\nNews is in WP blog<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, April 18, 2010<\/a><\/td>\nBlog Migration<\/td>\nmoving personal blog to WP, away from Blogger<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, April 14, 2010<\/a><\/td>\nMigration<\/td>\nlocusmag.com on new server; php<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, April 7, 2010<\/a><\/td>\nInfrastructure Note<\/td>\nnew index to magazine reviews<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, March 21, 2010<\/a><\/td>\nLight and Dark in Orlando<\/td>\nICFA report; people of pallor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, March 19, 2010<\/a><\/td>\nOvercast in Orlando<\/td>\nICFA report <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, March 13, 2010<\/a><\/td>\nTaking Longer than Expected<\/td>\ngoing to ICFA; upcoming changes on the site (Blogger discontinuing FTP support)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, January 22, 2010<\/a><\/td>\nWhen It Rains in California<\/td>\nrain in LA; projects and tasks underway<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, December 31, 2009<\/a><\/td>\nReading Notes: King, Doctorow, Banks, Kress, Atwood, Wilson, Bear<\/td>\nUnder the Dome, Makers, Transition, Steal Across the Sky, The Year of the Flood, Julian Comstock, Mariposa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, November 23, 2009<\/a><\/td>\nA Curious Volume of Forgotten Lore<\/td>\nvisiting Marina and Mark; reading Wells’ The Croquet Player’<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, November 7, 2009<\/a><\/td>\nWorld Fantasy Con, Wrapup<\/td>\nWFC in San Jose<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, November 3, 2009<\/a><\/td>\nHome from World Fantasy Con<\/td>\nquick note<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, October 31, 2009<\/a><\/td>\nWorld Fantasy Con 2009, Friday<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, October 29, 2009<\/a><\/td>\nAnd Now the News\u2026 Blog<\/td>\n2009 site redesign now applied to News blog<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, October 24, 2009<\/a><\/td>\nIconic Covers<\/td>\nscans of Foundation, Martian Chonicles<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, October 14, 2009<\/a><\/td>\nReading Notes: Beckett, Morrow, Tan, Zebrowski, et al<\/td>\nGenesis, Tales from Outer Suburbia, Shambling Towards Hiroshima, Empties, The Proteus Sails Again, The Hotel Under the Sand, Captain Future<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, September 18, 2009<\/a><\/td>\nLocus Online makes Boeuf Bourguignon<\/td>\nwith a ceramic pot that broke<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, September 1, 2009<\/a><\/td>\nFutures Amid the Flames<\/td>\ndriving to Wotf as fire burns in the hills<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, August 27, 2009<\/a><\/td>\nAll-time Novels Polls<\/td>\nplans for more polls, with allusion to composite list in the SF awards index<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, August 26, 2009<\/a><\/td>\nCash for Clunkers adventure<\/td>\nshopping for new SUV<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, August 20, 2009<\/a><\/td>\nRoundtable renovation<\/td>\nnew design applied to roundtable<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, August 16, 2009<\/a><\/td>\nMeanwhile, Behind the Scenes\u2026<\/td>\nwork on the redesign<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, August 9, 2009<\/a><\/td>\nWe also serve who sit home and post<\/td>\nnot at Worldcon in Montreal<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, July 28, 2009<\/a><\/td>\nCharles N. Brown Memorials<\/td>\nat the house, at Borderlands Books<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, July 21, 2009<\/a><\/td>\nJuly 20, 1969: Witnessing the Inevitable<\/td>\nrecalling the moon landing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, July 14, 2009<\/a><\/td>\nThe Heirs of Charles N. Brown<\/td>\nmy memorial (which ran in the magazine, a bit edited)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, June 26, 2009<\/a><\/td>\nHome Fires<\/td>\nnot at Locus awards; a bit on the Star Trek movie<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, May 23, 2009<\/a><\/td>\nSecrets from Ridgewood Lane<\/td>\nvisiting Locus; dinner at Garibaldi’s; Jimmy’s graduation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, May 20, 2009<\/a><\/td>\nWineries, Vineyards, and the CIA<\/td>\nNapa valley tour<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, May 17, 2009<\/a><\/td>\nNapa’s Empty Storefronts<\/td>\nlong weekend in Napa and Oakland<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, May 10, 2009<\/a><\/td>\n98% Done, and Posted<\/td>\nnew homepage posted<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, May 4, 2009<\/a><\/td>\n90% Done<\/td>\nworking on new homepage<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, April 28, 2009<\/a><\/td>\nAt the Nebula Awards<\/td>\nat UCLA; Janis Ian<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, April 11, 2009<\/a><\/td>\nFuriously at Work<\/td>\nall the teams hard at work on the redesign<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, April 2, 2009<\/a><\/td>\nSpring on Medina Road<\/td>\nspring; April 1st posts; projects, reading<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, March 27, 2009<\/a><\/td>\nI Feel a Redesign Coming On<\/td>\nmore substantial than last year’s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, March 20, 2009<\/a><\/td>\nHugos, Awards Index, ICFA<\/td>\nreaction to Hugo and other award finalists; six nominees for one hugo finalist; not at ICFA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, March 11, 2009<\/a><\/td>\nMy First Ring<\/td>\nfirst time seeing Wagner’s cycle of operas<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, March 5, 2009<\/a><\/td>\nBackpedaling<\/td>\nabout comment about Sci Fi Wire<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, March 3, 2009<\/a><\/td>\nJust a Few Remarks about Awards<\/td>\nmostly about how I’d refigure hugo categories for magazine (not editor), for specific cover art, etc.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, February 27, 2009<\/a><\/td>\nWorkspace<\/td>\ndescription of office\/library, with photos<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, February 26, 2009<\/a><\/td>\nFormatting and Infrastructure<\/td>\ntweaks for roundtable; juggling so many posts<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, February 23, 2009<\/a><\/td>\nWork, Workspaces, and Oscars<\/td>\nwestfahl essay upcoming; roundtable thread on workspaces; approve of oscar winners<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, February 19, 2009<\/a><\/td>\nColor Scheming the Style Sheeting<\/td>\ntweaking colors on awards index, now w\/style sheets<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, February 16, 2009<\/a><\/td>\nCoraline, Delinked in Bruges, Quintessentially<\/td>\nnotes on Coraline, In Bruges; Gevers essays coming<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, February 12, 2009<\/a><\/td>\nLocus Constellation<\/td>\ncorrecting description of Locus Online; how various parts are done by different people<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, February 9, 2009<\/a><\/td>\n“February 2009”<\/td>\nstatus of this blog, new Locus blogs, locus poll, awards, etc.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, January 16, 2009<\/a><\/td>\nI Get My Sf\/F News from\u2026Locus Online!<\/td>\nNews Blog is significant new development<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, January 7, 2009<\/a><\/td>\nPHP<\/td>\nnew index page, with News Blog link, is index.php<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, January 5, 2009<\/a><\/td>\nChanges Are a’Coming<\/td>\nnews blog coming; Blogger has improved since 3 years ago<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, December 28, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nHanging on Ads<\/td>\nreports of malware from Locus site? Page load hanging by ads? <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, December 28, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nThe Untitled<\/td>\nformat tweak on awards site via CE Petit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, December 25, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nFloating in Style<\/td>\nupdating awards index and moving from tables to css floats<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, December 22, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nExpansion Plans<\/td>\nscaling back new books listings in order to work long-term expansion plans (reference to my own LDV); notes during Arlington business trip<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, November 30, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nExpansions<\/td>\npaypal button; wrote review of best american fantasy; notes on mcdevitt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, November 20, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nDenver Interlude, and the Fires<\/td>\nattending tech conference; watching fire coverage on tv<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, November 4, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nWorld Fantasy Con, Calgary – Day 4, Sunday<\/td>\nbanquet and awards<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, November 2, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nWorld Fantasy Con, Calgary – Day 3, Saturday<\/td>\nmostly about panels<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, November 1, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nWorld Fantasy Con, Calgary – Day 2, Friday<\/td>\npanels; notes on KJ Parker’s The Company<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, October 31, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nWorld Fantasy Con, Calgary – Day 1<\/td>\narrived calgary; party promoting australian writers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, October 30, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nOff the World Fantasy<\/td>\nleaving shortly<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, October 9, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nAutumnal Views<\/td>\nbehind on posts; awards index update soon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, September 16, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nHome from Alaska<\/td>\ndid the copter ride and train ride, saw glaciers in the bay<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, September 9, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nCruising Alaska<\/td>\non a cruise, internet access erratic<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, September 7, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nVacation Notice – Alaska Cruise<\/td>\nleaving tomorrow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, August 23, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nBack Office Technical Notes<\/td>\nmoving off-site links into the blinks column<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, August 15, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nNew Skin<\/td>\nworking refinement of look and structure<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, August 12, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nDenvention 3 Day 5: Checking Out, Back Home<\/td>\nconsensus: convention was adequate, not great<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, August 10, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nDenvention 3 Day 4: Essential Books; Hugos<\/td>\npanel on essential books; reaction to Hugo winners<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, August 9, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nDenvention 3 Day 3: Changing the Rules<\/td>\nLocus Foundation meeting; Hugo rules change remove Locus from semipro eligibility<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, August 8, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nDenvention 3 Day 2: Mostly Locus matters<\/td>\npanels; lunch w\/Locus folks about changing website<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, August 7, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nDenvention 3 Day 1: Checking in, Eventually; Very Prelim Best of ’08<\/td>\narrived Denver; long lines to check in; panel on best novels of ’08<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, August 7, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nDenvention 3 Prelude: I’ve Seen It Raining Fire in the Sky<\/td>\nFlew in to Denver Sunday, couple days in Estes Park, Rocky Mtn park; hikes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, August 6, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nDenvention 3: Checking In<\/td>\nhave arrived<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, August 1, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nDesign Studies<\/td>\nlinks to two alternate design studies for homepage<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, July 29, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nToying with Redesign<\/td>\nvarious options for redesign<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, July 20, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nGeorge Takei and Star Trek<\/td>\nTakei’s appearance at Rocketdyne; his autobiography; episode of amateur Trek<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, July 18, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nSummer Cold; Design Thoughts<\/td>\nin response to survey comments, etc.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, July 8, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nHugo Vote<\/td>\nmanaged to vote on last day of voting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, July 7, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nTom Disch; Linkages<\/td>\nput Disch obit on its own page, to see if picked up by Google<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, July 3, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nTweaking the Clutter<\/td>\ndetails, with link of recent homepage capture<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, June 29, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nReport from SF Hall of Fame Ceremony, 2008<\/td>\ndetailed report<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, June 22, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nNotes from Locus Awards Weekend, 2008<\/td>\nreport; Gibson event; panels; awards<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, June 17, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nNo June Gloom<\/td>\nlittle news; Budrys obit; plan to write review of The Invaders on DVD [never finished this]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, June 2, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nWriters, Producers, and Harlan Ellison<\/td>\nEllison doc on DVD, rereading early versions of ST script ‘City’<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, May 27, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nNotes on Four Novels by Women<\/td>\nLe Guin, Hall, Winterson, Fowler<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, May 15, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nStill Sorting<\/td>\nextraneous books; notes on McDevitt, Doctorow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, May 5, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nWhat To Do with Extraneous Books?<\/td>\ndid Huntsville trip; extraneous books<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, April 24, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nLocus Finalists<\/td>\nspam attack over; poll votes tabulated<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, April 21, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nSpam Attack<\/td>\nsome 2000 in one day<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, April 15, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nApril 2008 Notes<\/td>\n2-week flu; poll votes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, March 27, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nFilm Rec: Into the Wild<\/td>\nbrief notes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, March 23, 2008<\/a><\/td>\n2008 ICFA Highlights<\/td>\npanels, luncheon, awards banquet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, March 21, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nClarke, 2001, and ICFA 2008<\/td>\npersonal reaction to Clarke’s death, and writing his obit for the site; arrived ICFA 2008<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, March 8, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nLost: The Return of Michael?<\/td>\njazzed by recent episodes, and foreshadowing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, March 8, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nFebruary Reading: Ballard, Le Guin, Swanwick, McDevitt<\/td>\nBallard bio; Voices and Powers; Dragons of Babel; Odyssey<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, February 23, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nInteresting Nebula Observation<\/td>\nmost finalists published in most recent year<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, February 21, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nAwards Index update, for now<\/td>\nwith more frequent updates in the future<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, February 14, 2008<\/a><\/td>\n2007 Summaries<\/td>\ntried tallying 2007 bestsellers, best books<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, February 5, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nCatching Up; HP Service<\/td>\nupdates on site; HP response to laptop problems<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, January 30, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nBooks to Films<\/td>\nMcCarthy No Country; Simmons’ Terror<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, January 30, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nWinter Storms<\/td>\nmagical sunny day between storms; new blog header photo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, January 24, 2008<\/a><\/td>\n2007 Reading<\/td>\nread 87 books; took photo of them stacked up [photo apparently lost]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, January 20, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nNew PC Glitches and Fixes<\/td>\nlike it says<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, January 17, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nTransitioned\u2026ing<\/td>\nissues moving to new PC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, January 15, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nOffice Song and Dance<\/td>\ninstalling old versions of Office on new PC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, January 14, 2008<\/a><\/td>\nPC Transitions<\/td>\nnew desktop; laptop sent in for repair<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, December 27, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nBusy December<\/td>\ncouple books; No Country for Old Men and whether to see movie or read book first<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, December 10, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nAtonement, the film: quick take<\/td>\nfilm very similar t book, not a bad thing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, December 8, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nReading of late<\/td>\nMcEwan’s Atonement; Wolfe’s Pirate Freedom; McAuley’s Cowboy Angels; Morgan’s Black Man<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, November 26, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nReview of The Man from Earth<\/td>\ndirect to DVD film written by Jerome Bixby<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, November 12, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nWhat I Learned at WFC<\/td>\ntrust center settings in MS Office<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, November 8, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nThe Movie List<\/td>\nsomebody’s list of classic films that would change one’s life<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, November 7, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nWFC, Wrap-Up<\/td>\nbig, successful convention<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, November 5, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nWFC, Saratoga Springs, Day 4, Sunday<\/td>\ndrove around downtown; the banquet, and awards<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, November 4, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nWFC, Saratoga Springs, Day 3, Saturday<\/td>\npanel, lunch at irish pub; year in review; dinner troll; Rome Q<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, November 3, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nWFC, Saratoga Springs, Day 2, Friday<\/td>\nLocus Foundation, panels, parties<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, November 2, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nWFC, Saratoga Springs, Day 1, Thursday<\/td>\nhotel irritants; panels; dinner with Beth and Haldemans; etc<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, November 2, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nUp and Down Vermont<\/td>\nVermonth b&b, route 100, driving, Y to airport<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, October 31, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nUp and Down Vermont, to Saratoga Springs<\/td>\nchecking in; hotel irritants<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, October 30, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nProvincetown to Walden to Vermont<\/td>\nnational seashore, Pilgrim monument, Walden Pond, to Vermont b&b<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, October 28, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nProvincetown <\/td>\ndrive from Boston, Crowne Point Inn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, October 25, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nNew Developments: Fires, Email<\/td>\nsmall fire near home; spam problems<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, October 24, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nSoCal Fires; Email Problems Again<\/td>\nfires, and is there a skiffy solution?; email problems<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, October 22, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nFirestorm<\/td>\nSanta Ana wins, fires everywhere; link to archived home page<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, October 19, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nComing Soon: Latest Redesign<\/td>\nexpanding the width<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, October 15, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nMovie Note: Michael Clayton<\/td>\nincidental correctly depiction of light\/sound from bomb in this film; planning WFC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, October 12, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nAnd Then I Read: Bova and Gibson<\/td>\nTitan, Spook Country<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, September 26, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nAnd Then I Read: Matheson and Finney<\/td>\nInvasion of the Body Snatchers; The Incredible Shrinking Man<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, September 17, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nRecent Movie Notes<\/td>\nThe Nines; The Bourne Ultimatum; Eastern Promises; The Omega Man<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, September 5, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nHugos Reaction<\/td>\nmostly pleased; hot in SoCal, a dry heat<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, September 1, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nImminent Posts<\/td>\nposts ready but site down at the moment<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, August 25, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nliteral August 2007<\/td>\nStardust; The Invasion; Tiptree bio; meeting CNB and Amelia for dinner in Pasadena; not at Worldcon in Japan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, July 28, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nHarry Potter; Comic Con<\/td>\nread the new HP; not at Comic Con, though two Locus folks are<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, July 11, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nInternet Paranoia<\/td>\nsnail mail letter from someone who wants his online references deleted; Andrew Keen book<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, July 4, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nMuted Sunshine<\/td>\npreview screening of Danny Boyle’s Sunshine on Fox lot, with long review of its flaws<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, June 30, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nTravel Notes: Vancouver, Seattle, Tampa<\/td>\nnotes about those cities; SF Hall of Fame; tech conference in Tampa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, June 20, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nLocus Awards Weekend, 2007<\/td>\npanels, awards, Hawaiin shirts, Rome Q, SF Hall of Fame; Will Wheaton<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, June 18, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nVancouver Seattle Tampa<\/td>\nbeen on the road; will catch up<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, June 6, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nPaper, Plastic, or World Fantasy Con Tote Bag?<\/td>\nusing cloth tote bags to take groceries home, a year or so before it became popular to do so<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, June 5, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nQuills Scope<\/td>\nsf finalists better; but awards have no science category<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, May 30, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nNew Reviews<\/td>\nGary Westfahl hate mail; my review for Locus Mag, first in 5 years<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, May 8, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nPortal Update<\/td>\nLinks Portal update; upcoming reviews<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, April 26, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nWe Get Letters — Well, Not Actually<\/td>\nfewer letters these days; Links Portal update; link to 10-year history of Locus Online<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, April 20, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nThanks for voting in our poll\u2026<\/td>\nresults in, winners determined<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, April 19, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nWebsite, 10 Years On; Vista, 3 Weeks On<\/td>\nissues with Windows Vista, some cool things about the new Office<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, March 26, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nVista glitches<\/td>\nPaint Shop Pro; my scanner; iTunes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, March 24, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nWell, That’s One Way to Clear Out the Inbox\u2026; Vista, Office 2007<\/td>\nnew laptop after Key West theft; changes with Vista and Office<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, March 21, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nSomeone in Key West Doesn’t Like Me<\/td>\ndriving Mustang from ICFA to Key West; stroll to dinner; room burgled, laptops stolen; back to Ft. Lauderdale, changing passwords; loss of several days’ emails<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, March 18, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nICFA 2007, Saturday<\/td>\nlast ICFA in Ft. Lauderdale; pool photo; lunch<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, March 17, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nICFA 2007, Friday<\/td>\nscholar’s luncheon; mundane sf; dinner w\/L Schimel; Ryman reading<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, March 16, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nICFA 2007, Arrival<\/td>\nfourth time since 2000; dinner at brazilian steakhouse; gender and sexuality<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, March 14, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nChina, Florida<\/td>\nF Wu reports locusmag.com blocked in China; heading to Florida<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, March 3, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nCalling 978<\/td>\nproblems with Amazon links and new 13 digit ISBNs (that begin with 978)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, March 1, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nFavicon update<\/td>\nold and new favicons<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, February 24, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nAbout Book Editors; What Does an Editor Do?<\/td>\neditors list; PNH feedback about reprints; US v UK editors<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, February 17, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nIncremental Updates<\/td>\nfigured out how to update awards index without rebuilding entire site<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, February 8, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nAwards Index Update <\/td>\nnominee indexes now have fixed pagination; thus permalinks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, February 5, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nTemporary Glitch; Please Stand By<\/td>\nproblem with server; rebooted<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, February 4, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nFebruary 3 Update<\/td>\n71 locus poll ballots in first 24 hours<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, January 26, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nNotes on Letters from Iwo Jima, et al<\/td>\nand Pan’s Labyrinth, Dreamgirls (please stop!)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, January 20, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nBest Editors<\/td>\nsite will post lists of 2006 books arranged by editor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, January 20, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nJanuary is the busiest month<\/td>\nawards index update; Lambda judging; movies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, January 8, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nNotes on Curse of the Golden Flower<\/td>\nspectacular film; crack about Crichton<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, January 5, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nFour in one day<\/td>\nposts on the website that is<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, January 3, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nNotes on Children of Men and The Road<\/td>\nsimilar reactions: both films assume premises without examination<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, January 2, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nHappy New Year 2007<\/td>\nfinished Blogger blog for site features, to facilitate reader commenting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, December 29, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nFeatures Blog<\/td>\nnew Features blog, with comment moderation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, December 23, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nCarl Sagan Memories<\/td>\nCosmic Connection; Cosmos; Contact; Demon-Haunted world, cf Shermer, Harris, Dawkins<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, December 22, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nSecure Sockets Layer, and so on<\/td>\nsecurity certificate issue; cruise notes; sample reviews coming soon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, December 21, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nNotes on Next<\/td>\nthe Crichton novel– creaky as fiction; at least he raises issues; but indulges in slurs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, December 16, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nBack on Dry Land<\/td>\nhome from Ensenada cruise; impressions of first-time cruise<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, December 14, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nEnsenada<\/td>\nquick note<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, December 12, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nCatalina<\/td>\ntrying to download email on a cruise ship<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, December 11, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nDecember Cruise<\/td>\nabout to leave on cruise; may not have internet access<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, December 10, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nVar Partition<\/td>\nemail to Locus vanished for 24 hours; no clear explanation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, December 9, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nAbout James Jean, and so on<\/td>\nphoto of WFA winning artist in Wired<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, December 7, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nJudging<\/td>\nhave agreed to be judge for Lambda Literary Awards<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, December 6, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nVesper (Movie Notes: James Bond)<\/td>\nnever been a fan; watched a couple early ones; this one describes that cocktail<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, December 5, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nMovie Notes: Little Children; The Fountain)<\/td>\nliked the Clint Mansell score of the latter, especially<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, December 3, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nSpam Solution, for now<\/td>\nnot examining spam for any stray legitimate emails; robots<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, December 2, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nThe End of the Year?<\/td>\nhow best-of-year lists appear well before end of year; efficiency of NBA process<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, December 1, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nToday’s Spammer Oddity<\/td>\nspammers attacking older pages and not the latest pages<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, November 30, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nWhat Are Spammers Thinking?<\/td>\nwhen they send emails to imaginary addresses, e.g. moody@locusmag.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, November 5, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nAustin WFC Saturday<\/td>\npanels; lunch w\/Howard and Lawrence; Ted Chiang’s first panel; banquet and awards (Saturday night)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, November 5, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nAustin WFC Friday<\/td>\nbest of year panel; Kenn Bates; Clarion dinner; mass autograph session<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, November 3, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nAustin WFC Thursday<\/td>\narrived Austin, visited old friend, wildflower center; checking in; dinner w\/Beth<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, October 25, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nThree Magicians<\/td>\nabout The Prestige and The Illusionist<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, October 19, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nOn Reading H.P. Lovecraft for the First Time (Part Two)<\/td>\nlong essay; how HPL finds reality a threat to human values; summary of intro’s to various HPL editions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, October 17, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nChecking in 16 Oct.<\/td>\nfinished reading HPL; behind on site listings<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, October 6, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nLost s3\/e1<\/td>\nabout premiere episode of season three<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, October 2, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nISBN update<\/td>\nnew ISBN-13s add 987- but change the check digit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, September 29, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nReal-Life Mysteries<\/td>\nabout a murder at a house down the street; about calls to my phone for “Kevin Terani”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, September 26, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nDSL Issue<\/td>\nvoice calls interrupt DSL service<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, September 25, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nLinks and Blinks<\/td>\nupdating some links pages<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, September 22, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nOn Reading H.P. Lovecraft for the First Time (Part One)<\/td>\nhaving decided to read HPL stories chronologically in order; progress so far<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, September 19, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nChecking in 18 Sept.<\/td>\nrunning behind; jury duty and flu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, September 13, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nA Phantom Airplane that Never Left the Ground<\/td>\nlinks about how employers and keyboard monitors; ISBN-13s coming Jan 2007<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, September 12, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nRules of ISBNs<\/td>\nvia Contento, how the new ISBN-13s change the check digit; issues with Amazon links<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, September 11, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nFeatured Blog<\/td>\nthis blog a ‘featured blog’ on analog and asimov’s websites; had to sign forms!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, September 10, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nLockdown<\/td>\nabout a ‘friend’ whose company was just sold to a uptight east-coast firm, and how they clamp down and suppress web searches<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, August 31, 2006<\/a><\/td>\n2006 Anaheim Worldcon — Odds and Ends<\/td>\nfollow-ups about Russell Letson, 15yo Michael’s reactions; Harlan’s grope<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, August 30, 2006<\/a><\/td>\n2006 Anaheim Worldcon — Day 3\/4\/5 — Wrap-Up<\/td>\nEos party; Yeong and Michael came, did parties; Losers party; Mark & Marina (stopped by house)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, August 28, 2006<\/a><\/td>\n2006 Anaheim Worldcon — Hugo Voting Comments<\/td>\ncomments of voting breakdown<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, August 28, 2006<\/a><\/td>\n2006 Anaheim Worldcon — Day 4 — Saturday evening — Hugo Awards<\/td>\ndescription of ceremony and winners<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, August 27, 2006<\/a><\/td>\n2006 Anaheim Worldcon — Day 4 — Saturday <\/td>\npanels; pre-Hugo reception<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, August 26, 2006<\/a><\/td>\n2006 Anaheim Worldcon — Day 3 — Friday<\/td>\nbest books panel; bloggers; Locus 40th<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, August 25, 2006<\/a><\/td>\n2006 Anaheim Worldcon — Day 2 — Thursday<\/td>\nLocus Foundation; panels<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, August 24, 2006<\/a><\/td>\n2006 Anaheim Worldcon — Day 1 — Wednesday<\/td>\narrival Anaheim; dealers room<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, August 23, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nConvergence to Locus<\/td>\nBeth staying at house; Locus van stopped by on way to Anaheim<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, August 16, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nNotes on The Ruins<\/td>\nScott Smith’s novel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, August 9, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nService Interruption<\/td>\nproblem with phone line at home<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, August 6, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nThe Presumption of Certain Possible Joys<\/td>\nquoting John Updike’s rules for reviewing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, August 2, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nConstituencies<\/td>\nsubmitted Hugo votes; wondering how voters think<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, July 31, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nToo Close<\/td>\ntwo reviews that dismiss works on minor but personal issues<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, July 23, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nIt Was Hot<\/td>\nvery hot today; cf global warming<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, July 21, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nThe Interview<\/td>\nmy interview w\/JPKelly in new issue of Asimov’s; why webmasters do it<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, July 14, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nStill Here<\/td>\nbehind on matters <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, May 25, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nAs Others See Us\u2026<\/td>\ntwo reviews that begin with cliches takes on sf\/f<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, May 25, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nTrue Blue Science Fiction Award<\/td>\nrealized that Campbell Award is truest blue SF award<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, May 10, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nArizona Aftermath<\/td>\nads; all-time poll not yet tallied; writers who read my blog; apologies for photo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, May 7, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nNebulas ’06<\/td>\nConnie and Harlan; marginal photo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, May 6, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nTempe Arrangements<\/td>\nLast week, conference in SLC; drove to Tempe; dinner, party<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, April 22, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nLocus Poll Finalists Pending<\/td>\nvotes tallied, pending lingering paper ballots<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, April 22, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nWhat I Meant by Fantasy Romance<\/td>\nexamples of books on bestseller lists that I don’t necessarily compile<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, April 20, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nFantasy Romance<\/td>\n9th anniversary of site just passed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, April 15, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nSecond to Last Day<\/td>\nfor the poll; 50 ballots just today<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, April 14, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nAs Widely Seen on the Net\u2026<\/td>\nnoticing that several big sites expanded to 980 px wide<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, April 3, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nApril Foolishness<\/td>\nbit of flack from an april 1st item<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, April 1, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nNobody User<\/td>\nemail problems due to e-mail upgrade at CI Host<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, March 31, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nUpdates, Spam, and Forms<\/td>\nnew corporate owners making it difficult to update site, see email; issues with spam<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, March 25, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nLinks Portal Update<\/td>\nsome re-org of that page<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, March 23, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nContest Fallout; Hugos<\/td>\nBantam Spectra problems sending books to winners; Gaiman not on Hugo ballot<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, March 18, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nNot at ICFA<\/td>\nVanderMeer giveaway contest stalled<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, March 17, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nQuiz Update 2<\/td>\ntoo easy or too hard?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, March 16, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nQuiz Update<\/td>\nOnly 8 correct responses so far<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, March 15, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nA Little Quiz<\/td>\nhave agreed to host Bantam Spectra giveaway contest on site<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, March 10, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nDistillations, 2005<\/td>\ncomments on some 47 stories read for Hugo nominations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, March 7, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nWe Get Letters (Once in a While)<\/td>\nletter re new SF reviewer at NY Times<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, March 2, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nLocus Poll Voting Patterns<\/td>\nfrom past two years; percentage of votes winners get<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, February 23, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nDigiComp<\/td>\nphoto and description, triggered by Boing Boing mention<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, February 18, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nFull Moon<\/td>\nphoto on blog is of moon at sunset<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, February 11, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nCategory Inflation<\/td>\nlocus poll ‘novella’ cutoff now 59,000 words<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, February 7, 2007<\/a><\/td>\nVoting Sins, 2<\/td>\nwe disregard ballots that vote for same item in every slot of a category<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, February 6, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nVoting Response<\/td>\n250 ballots already<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, February 3, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nOff and Running<\/td>\n86 ballots in first 24 hours, twice as heavy as last year<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, February 2, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nGet Ready, Get Set, Vote<\/td>\npoll now online; doing an online-only poll for best poem<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, January 26, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nScam Scam?<\/td>\ndonations to site; email from someone about subscription service scam<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, January 24, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nOne More Slice<\/td>\nadded major novel winners, 1951-2005 on awards index<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, January 23, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nVersion 1.4<\/td>\nawards index update; still contemplate CD ROM version<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, January 18, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nTraffic; E-mail; Workplace Restrictions<\/td>\ntraffic to site spikes for reviews; new PCs at work change email, block more sites<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, January 13, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nVideo Hugo<\/td>\nwill be video game Hugo; examining locus survey stats on such interests<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, January 12, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nBest and Worst<\/td>\ngeneral rule: for any work, some will think it genius, others a waste of time<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, January 11, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nWriters and Readers<\/td>\nhow there seem to be more aspiring writers than there are discriminating readers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, January 9, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nFilling in the Gaps<\/td>\nno progress on awards index, but gathering gaps in data<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, January 8, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nAwards Gaps<\/td>\ncompiling data for awards index update<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, January 7, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nWeb Sources, Awards<\/td>\ncompiling data; odd how some awards have no sites of their own<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, January 6, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nBusy January<\/td>\nmany things in work for the site<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, January 3, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nNew Links<\/td>\nemails and adding links; issue with compiling personal blogs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, January 2, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nRainy Day<\/td>\nstorm and wind<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, January 2, 2006<\/a><\/td>\nHappy 2006<\/td>\nraining in SoCal, maybe on Rose Parade tomorrow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, December 29, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nHoliday Interlude<\/td>\ncatching up after holidays<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, December 24, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nThe Books of Adventure<\/td>\nbrief summary of Blyton’s Adventure novels<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, December 19, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nLive, from Starbucks<\/td>\nat a Starbucks (in Mammoth) because no wifi in rental condo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, December 17, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nThe Sites with No Names<\/td>\nodd how some sites have no authorship credits<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, December 12, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nPrint to Screen<\/td>\nBrokeback Mountain: most faithful print to screen adaptation ever seen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, December 9, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nWooden Rockets?<\/td>\nwondering about this years awards for websites<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, December 7, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nThanks for Your Visits<\/td>\nCheryl Morgan’s website stats; Locus Online’s; dubious significance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, December 2, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nMore about Hugo Fantasies<\/td>\nspeculation about splitting Hugos for SF and fantasy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, November 26, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nThe Hugo Fantasy Awards<\/td>\nBenford pointing out how four of last five Hugos for novels are fantasies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, November 24, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nPlenty More Lists to Come<\/td>\nfeature lists and statistics; not at LosCon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, November 23, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nNext Time No Lists<\/td>\ncomments about Westfahl essay about compiling quotations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, November 20, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nIt’s 2006<\/td>\n2006 dir on site; Westfahl essay coming; LAT review of Lost tie-in nvl<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, November 17, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nBrief Period<\/td>\nflu; episodes of Desperate Housewives and Lost; book club freebie<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, November 16, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nInto the Aether<\/td>\ndemise of Sci Fiction; will after the apocalypse all websites disappear?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, November 14, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nSeveral Kinds of Brilliant<\/td>\nabout the first season of Desperate Housewives<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, November 12, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nStill Bare<\/td>\nNorton problem; terrible news about Sci Fiction<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, November 10, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nNorton, Barely<\/td>\nproblems installing Norton Antivirus update, though trying not to whine about computer issues so often<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, November 7, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nMadison WFC Sunday<\/td>\nMark & Marina; Lois Tilton; banquet and awards; judges panel; enormous dinner group<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, November 6, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nMadison WFC Saturday<\/td>\npanels; dealers room; artists reception<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, November 5, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nMadison WFC Friday<\/td>\nflying into Chicago; Locus Foundation (Liza replacing Jennifer Hall); dealers room; panels; walking tour; autograph session<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, November 2, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nPeopled & Published<\/td>\nmentioned in Locus because nearby SoCal wildfires<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, October 30, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nDarkening October<\/td>\nbacklog, Norton problems, pre-Halloween party<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, October 29, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nOctober Interim<\/td>\nback from business trip; new books; watching Desperate Housewives; news about George Takei [CNN link broken]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, October 25, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nPassages from Alexandria<\/td>\nDidion on Lessing; from a Time Mag 100 all-time novels<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, October 23, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nSound Check<\/td>\nmy take on audiobooks; leaving for business trip to Alexandria VA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, October 19, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nBerlinksiing<\/td>\nreading a book by David Berlinksi, quoting his weird, extravagent, rhetoric<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, October 18, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nExtreme Weather, LA Style<\/td>\nthunder and lightening, rare in SoCal; Horton essay coming<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, October 16, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nIf the Thundercloud Passes Rain<\/td>\nglitches on site, resolved<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, October 15, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nRegress<\/td>\nlinks from Monitor pages to Directory pages; news on separate pages<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, October 11, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nFor Your Consideration\u2026<\/td>\nsetting up 2005 cover art gallery page<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, October 10, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nWikipediaed<\/td>\nhomepage update; Wikipedia page for Locus Online; Corpse Bride<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, October 7, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nFriday Notes<\/td>\nA Google alert; Dahlia Litchwick on intelligent design<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, October 7, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nComments Be Gone<\/td>\ncomments suppressed; Lost; going to WFC in Madison<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, October 5, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nDesign Study<\/td>\ncomment options; refining homepage<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, October 4, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nDesert Sojourn<\/td>\nPalm Springs Living Desert, Aerial Tram; no time-share<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, October 1, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nOctober Pause<\/td>\nwildifres and mapping tools; leaving for Palm Springs, without computer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, September 30, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nThe Fire When It Comes<\/td>\nbit wildfire NW of us in LA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, September 29, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nMoviePlans<\/td>\nupcoming essays and reviews on site<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, September 29, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nLost Transmission<\/td>\ncable out during Lost episode<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, September 28, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nFacilitator<\/td>\nrecall Sherry Gotlieb saying that she doesn’t read the stuff anymore<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, September 26, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nFlightplan<\/td>\nJodie Foster film about missing girl on huge jet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, September 25, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nStory Arcs<\/td>\nseason premiere of Lost; played Myst V in 3 days; being able to figure them out<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, September 22, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nAuthor Events, and More Stories<\/td>\nlots of author events; jet landing w\/o front gear<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, September 20, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nInfrastructure <\/td>\nstorms in LA due to hurricane; [a link that’s broken]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, September 19, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nLost Won<\/td>\nLost won best drama series Emmy; Steven Johnson cmt about such series<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, September 15, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nQuick Update<\/td>\nSix Feet Under finale; binge watching 1st season of Lost<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, September 9, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nCreeping Backlog<\/td>\ncatching up with items on site<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, September 7, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nLabor Day<\/td>\nbirthday at home (not at Worldcon) [did not mention is 50th bd]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, September 2, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nDrop-down Tweak<\/td>\njavascript drop-down menus on homepage<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, August 31, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nFive-Oh<\/td>\nnext post tomorrow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, August 25, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nCover Artist Listing<\/td>\nset up cover artist listing page, with stats of frequent covers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, August 23, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nLittle Lists<\/td>\nwill do cover artist list, and list of book editors<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, August 20, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nFriday Notes<\/td>\nEllen’s photos from Glasgow; re-instating BookSense links<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, August 18, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nSurely Wifi Wants to Be Free<\/td>\nvirus problem at work; expense of wifi in Europe hotels<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, August 17, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nJust One Vote<\/td>\njust as well didn’t win Hugo; panel about point of website Hugo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, August 15, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nBack Home<\/td>\nback from Europe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, August 10, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nContinental Hiatus<\/td>\non vacation in Europe; no posts for a while<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, August 8, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nGlasgow Sunday<\/td>\nY here for Glasgow shopping; Hugo nominee reception and ceremony; lost by one vote<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, August 7, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nGlasgow Saturday<\/td>\nWSFS business meeting; met Y at airport; HC party on ship<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, August 5, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nGlasgow Friday<\/td>\nbrk w\/Gary and Diana; panels; was on in memoriam panel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, August 5, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nGlasgow Thursday<\/td>\narrival, check-in, on panel about reviewing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, August 4, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nArrived Glasgow<\/td>\nflights, Heathrow, Moat House<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, August 2, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nTransit to Glasgow<\/td>\nsetting off to LAX for Glasgow, Europe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, August 2, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nHarry Etc.<\/td>\nfinished latest Harry Potter book; item about lawsuit against The Matrix<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, July 27, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nPottering<\/td>\nstarting HP 6; debate about Rowling’s series<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, July 18, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nHarry Potter and This Year’s Edition<\/td>\nsummary of reading the books so far<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, July 12, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nSummer Blues<\/td>\nbehind on email, review copies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, June 29, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nQuills SF<\/td>\nodd criteria for Quill awards sf\/f\/h finalists<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, June 25, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nSummer Awards\u2026<\/td>\nrecent finalists; Glasgow worldcon program; Cunningham<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, June 21, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nPlease Stand By\u2026<\/td>\nhave the flu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, June 18, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nResults Pending<\/td>\ncompiled all-time fantasy story poll; quote in bk listing cited by Langford<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, June 14, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nFollow-up to the Book Meme<\/td>\nfurther thoughts; and thoughts about culling<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, June 11, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nBook Meme<\/td>\nown 8650 bks; bks that mean a lot: by Bradbury, Silverberg, Wolfe, Wilson, Wright, Eliot<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, June 9, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nBooks in the Home<\/td>\nFreakonomics (quote about morality v economics); effects on children of having books in the home<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, June 6, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nWe get E-mail<\/td>\nemail objecting to book title including ‘Faust’ in Locus Index<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, June 1, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nNeffy News<\/td>\nnews that Locus Online won a ‘Neffy’ awards [link now invalid]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, May 25, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nInfrastructure Updates<\/td>\nnew ‘about’ pages, indexes, cleaned some ‘clutter’<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, May 23, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nSite Down<\/td>\nsite down since Sunday afternoon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, May 17, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nAnd the Winners Finalists Are\u2026<\/td>\npoll tallied; starting this year top 5 ‘finalists’ will be revealed\u2026<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, May 13, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nBook Season<\/td>\nlots of new books; complaint from ‘Karl’ about unprofessionalism of the site<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, May 9, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nRestyling<\/td>\nlatest updates use style sheets<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, May 6, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nImpending News<\/td>\nSheckley illness; Locus policy about health news<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, May 4, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nVoting Sins <\/td>\nediting write-ins; the usual voting sins<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, May 2, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nThank you for your votes<\/td>\npoll closed; over 900 ballots; time to compile<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, April 18, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nIshiguro<\/td>\nabout Never Let Me Go<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, April 17, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nRe-Linked<\/td>\nupdated\/checked all Links pages<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, April 15, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nLinks Obsessed<\/td>\npreoccupied with updating links pages<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, April 6, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nBellow Pulitzer Synchronicity<\/td>\nPulitzers announced, Bellow died, lines from H’s Gift about Pulitzers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, April 6, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nFormat Changes<\/td>\nAmazon link changes; Locus Online on Internet Wayback Machine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, April 4, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nApril 3rd<\/td>\nremoved alarming April 1st post (about leaving Locus and working for Scifi.com?)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, April 1, 2015<\/a><\/td>\nParsing Websites<\/td>\nresponse to Cheryl Morgan’s comments about Hugo noms for best website<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, March 28, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nIt’s an Honor<\/td>\nnominated again; surprised by some of the others<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, March 25, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nThere Is No Rising or Setting of the Sun<\/td>\nsubscribed to Amazon Prime a while back<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, March 24, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nRSS<\/td>\nadded rss feeds provided by Alexander Turcic<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, March 23, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nReturn from ICFA<\/td>\ngood time despite illness; no intention of leaking anything<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, March 18, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nArrived Fort Lauderdale<\/td>\nlayover 6 hrs in DFW, reading Cloud Atlas, delayed Norton obit post<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, March 17, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nBy the Time I Get to Florida\u2026<\/td>\nICFA soon; wondering about hugo website nomination; response from Glyer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, March 8, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nRestyled<\/td>\nredesigned homepage uses style sheets and simplified html<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, March 2, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nMarching On<\/td>\n260 poll ballots so far; invited to nominate for Sturgeon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, February 20, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nWhat Was in the Mystery Package<\/td>\ndescription of contents of odd review package<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, February 16, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nCounting the Bests<\/td>\ntallying best of 2004; Grammy awards balkanization<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, February 9, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nTraffic <\/td>\nspecial subscription pages for interviewees; 150 ballots so far<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, February 4, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nTechnical Difficulties (Yet Again)<\/td>\nwith outgoing email<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, February 3, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nBest of Year, Hearby<\/td>\nessays by Claude and Jeff posted; comments to fantasy poll<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, February 2, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nTally Options<\/td>\nexpanded options for fantasy story poll to nearly 300<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, January 30, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nTally Miscorrections<\/td>\ncorrections to poll; email troubles; this blog on JPK list [link broken]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, January 29, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nTallying the Bests<\/td>\npoll is up, including best fantasy story poll<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, January 23, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nNoted, not Blinked<\/td>\nquote from PKD reviewing denying his stories were sf<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, January 23, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nAwards Index Update<\/td>\nposted, including a couple corrections to errors no one noticed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, January 19, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nPop You Up<\/td>\nno objections so far to pop up ads<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, January 12, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nIt Pours<\/td>\nlots of rain in SoCal; La Conchita residents and their landslide<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, January 8, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nBestsellers are Different from the Books You and I Read\u2026<\/td>\nCrichton’s State of Fear and issues of media; Moore, Stewart, Koontz bestsellers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, January 5, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nAvailability<\/td>\nwhether certain films are fantasy; never did see Old Man’s War in a physical bkstore<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, January 3, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nFantasy Is Where You Find It<\/td>\nsaw Hero and House of Flying Daggers; are they fantasy?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, January 1, 2005<\/a><\/td>\nHappy 2004<\/td>\nBack from NYC, cold there; been good year for website, and reading<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, December 26, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nHoliday Hiatus<\/td>\nLeaving for NYC, intermittent updates<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, December 23, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nConspiracy Theories<\/td>\nCrichton’s State of Fear and the problems with conspiracy theories<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, December 22, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nWinter Was Warm<\/td>\nwarm; reading Susanna Clarke; bizarre package in mail<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, December 17, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nCatch-up-date<\/td>\nbusy this month; new homepage in work<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, December 10, 2015<\/a><\/td>\nRobot’s Revenge<\/td>\nRSS feeds; exploring WordPress etc<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, December 9, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nBloggering<\/td>\ntinkering w\/Blogger; perhaps will invest in Movable Type<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, December 6, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nDisclaimers<\/td>\ninteresting graphic [link obsolete]; working w\/Blogger; need to clean up links<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, December 4, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nNYT Best Books minus SF<\/td>\nthis year’s 100 notable books no longer has separate SF group<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, December 3, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nRSS Re-engineering<\/td>\nqueries about RSS feeds; considering blog-based homepage<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, November 30, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nThinking Alike<\/td>\noverlaps between Gary Wolfe’s lead reviews, and John Clute’s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, November 29, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nAlien Species<\/td>\narticle about global warmings forces species to migrate to areas where indigenous people have no names for them<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, November 27, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nTwo by Shepard<\/td>\nViator, A Handbook of American Prayer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, November 19, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nFahrenheit Pinot<\/td>\nBradbury award; saw Sideways; rec reading lists; NBA winners<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, November 15, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nIncredibly\u2026Fast<\/td>\nSaw The Incredibles, noting how past-paced it is, esp. near the end<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, November 14, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nIt’s All Just ‘Theories’, All the Way Down<\/td>\nLabel *all* the science texts as ‘just theories; NatGeo on Darwin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, November 13, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nFriday Evening: Mondegreen<\/td>\nthat term for mis-hearing lyrics, e.g. REM; quoting some of my poetry<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, November 12, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nYou Know It In Rhyme<\/td>\nrules for listening to new music; REM; latest album<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, November 12, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nReconciliation<\/td>\nAmazon and PW<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, November 11, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nMystery Mail<\/td>\nreceived “I, Robot” screenplay in mail, no idea why<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, November 10, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nAffiliations<\/td>\nAmazon no longer displaying PW reviews; Locus and BookSense<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, November 10, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nOrdinary People<\/td>\npartner’s reactions to Heavenly Creatures, House of Sand and Fog<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, November 6, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nLet Me Say This About That<\/td>\nthoughts about re-election of Bush; sides; the squishy middle; will of the majority, on matters of fact; imposing morality<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, November 2, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nReturn to Medina Road<\/td>\ndriving home from Arizona<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, November 1, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nWorld Fantasy Winding Down<\/td>\npanels; judges panel; bloggers; dinners<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, October 30, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nTempe <\/td>\narrived last night, mass autograph party, Ford, Shepard, et al<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, October 29, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nLevel 5<\/td>\nachieved CMMI level 5; leaving for WFC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, October 29, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nConfiguration Management<\/td>\ngoing to WFC depends on result of CMMI appraisal<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, October 29, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nMy friend’s neighbor’s brother’s accountant saw a movie star last week\u2026<\/td>\nrain; cable movie filmed at neighbor’s house all day<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, October 22, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nThe difference between good and great<\/td>\nEconomist article on reading 132 bks in 147 days; to stand out a novel needs courage, vision, language<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, October 21, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nAbout the Booker<\/td>\nCloud Atlas lost but admire Hollinghurst, whose Line of Beauty won<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, October 21, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nIt Does Rain in Southern California\u2026<\/td>\nstorms in LA <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, October 17, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nChecking In, Securly<\/td>\nnow have security certificate on site<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, October 11, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nIt Was an Honor<\/td>\nlocusmag.com did not win Phantastik prize<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, October 8, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nThursday evening<\/td>\nchecking in <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, October 7, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nCompleat Mystery<\/td>\ncompleat v complete? Security certificate; fraud and stolen mail<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, October 5, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nVirtual Worlds<\/td>\nSky Captain movie; Myst IV<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, October 2, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nAlice in Computerland<\/td>\nPC problems: Myst IV install; router issues magically resolved<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, October 1, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nRecovering\/ed<\/td>\nrecovered from cold; catching up; Salon article on Neil Finn; his pendant melody examples<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, September 26, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nSeptember Cold<\/td>\nhave a cold<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, September 23, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nWorldcon Addendum<\/td>\nDavid Gerrold also turned away by door Nazi at Losers’ party<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, September 22, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nAir is Here<\/td>\nseveral new bks, including new Geoff Ryman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, September 21, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nThe Sundays<\/td>\nvisited Hammer museum; pet peeve about misleading award claims<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, September 19, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nSorry, Wrong Ending?<\/td>\nwatching Sorry, Wrong Number; can’t imagine film with this ending being released now<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, September 17, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nUnsystematic<\/td>\ncomplaints about John Shirley’s roundtable, no one on the ‘right’ accepted<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, September 16, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nFeatured Responses<\/td>\nresponses to roundtable; Shirley says invites to right-wing writers were refused<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, September 15, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nSpecial Features<\/td>\nShirley’s roundtable brought 15K viewers on Sunday<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, September 14, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nUnwired<\/td>\nfigured out how to activate wireless receiver on laptop<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, September 14, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nShopping On and Off Line<\/td>\nshopped various electronics stores, then ordered online<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, September 12, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nReading Patterns<\/td>\nreading entire authors early on; returning to that pattern lately<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, September 11, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nEditorial Non-Meetings<\/td>\nnever met most of my reviewers; not part of LA sf scene<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, September 10, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nReturn to Villa Medina<\/td>\nusing credit card miles to upgrade<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, September 6, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nConning Around<\/td>\npanels at con: best bks of year; ‘mixed’ marriages<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, September 5, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nHugos and Losers<\/td>\nHugo ceremony; missed breakfast; barred from Losers’ party<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, September 4, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nFoundation — and Empire?<\/td>\nLocus Foundation meeting; Locus Awards; Eos party at aquarium; parties<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, September 3, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nBlogging from Boston<\/td>\nin Boston for Worldcon; new laptop w\/high speed internet access<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, August 28, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nAll Right, I’m Actually Starting to Become Slightly Annoyed<\/td>\nspam rate abruptly doubled<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, August 18, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nTitle seen while compiling bestsellers<\/td>\nodd title about some global conspiracy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, August 6, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nSpam<\/td>\ngetting 1200 spam emails a day<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, July 29, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nHugo Reading<\/td>\nhave read most of hugo nominated short fiction; no new books page<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, July 20, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nThere, I Did It Again<\/td>\ntweaking of homepage and complaints<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, July 12, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nReader Queries<\/td>\nabout what constitute ‘invalid’ ballots<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, July 5, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nLocus Poll Stats #1<\/td>\nvalid ballots, number that filled out all categories, etc<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, July 3, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nUpdating<\/td>\nYeong off to China; Wooden Rocket awards<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, July 1, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nLocus Awards Winners<\/td>\nresults posted; staff shakeup this week<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, June 21, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nWhere We We\u2026<\/td>\nplacing more ads\u2026<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, June 8, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nTechnical difficulties (again)<\/td>\nDSL down<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, June 7, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nPamphlet Found in a file cabinet<\/td>\nthe Star Wars souvenir program I have from 1977<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, June 2, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nBusy Weekend<\/td>\nquick takes on Troy, The Day After Tomorrow; new KSR; new ads<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, May 29, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nAlmost Free<\/td>\nbeginning Gorilla Nation ads<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, May 26, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nCost Benefits<\/td>\nresponses to comments about amazon commissions, wipeovers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, May 25, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nChanges<\/td>\nPSP quandaray; contract for website ads<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, May 24, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nManga<\/td>\nbrowsed manga books sent for review<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, May 22, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nFeedback<\/td>\nresponse to feedback, including irritating PC application defaults<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, May 21, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nOptions<\/td>\nno comments; new subscription idea?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, May 20, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nAnd the winners are\u2026<\/td>\nlocus poll votes in, editing write-in votes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, May 13, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nAbout Reviews<\/td>\nissue about reviewer comments; stupid reviewer tricks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, May 13, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nTransitions<\/td>\ntransition to CI Host has gone smoothly<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, May 8, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nProgress<\/td>\nconsidering dedicated server, CI Host<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, May 4, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nAlternate Loci<\/td>\nLocus extended deadline for voting for the poll without telling me<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, May 3, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nVotes are in<\/td>\nvoting concluded for locus poll<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, April 26, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nInformation on the Web<\/td>\nanatomy of wonder; ideas for ultimate expansions of SF awards index<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, April 23, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nAnd the Hills the Greenest Green<\/td>\nreturn from Seattle, with links to places we visited; title is a song lyric (you can look it up)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, April 16, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nLeaving on a Jet Plane<\/td>\nleaving tomorrow for Seattle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, April 14, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nHijackers<\/td>\nabout viruses trying to take over my computer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, April 12, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nSkiffy Flix<\/td>\nfilms: notes on Target Earth, and The Angry Red Planet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, April 9, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nVisibility<\/td>\nawards news, and using Google News<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, April 7, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nHugh Goes There?<\/td>\nnews that 2005 Worldcon will have another best website category<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, April 2, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nApril Foolishness<\/td>\nreactions to April 1st spoofs; byline anagrams; I was Karl Kerrybot Lem<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, March 30, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nMysteries of the Web<\/td>\nlooking at website visits, trying to understand spikes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, March 27, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nYou Are You<\/td>\nplanning Nebulas in Seattle; about expansion pack for computer game URU, figuring it out<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, March 22, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nUpdates and DownDates<\/td>\npoll votes so far; not attending ICFA; no word of cat<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, March 18, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nThe Known and Unknown Worlds<\/td>\nthis blog’s faults of a good blog; opera notes; website expenses; lost cat — Puss’n’Boots<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, March 11, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nSummer Breeze<\/td>\ncurrent weather; tweaks to homepage<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, March 9, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nLost in Locusland<\/td>\nfark.com responses to friend’s post of locus recommended reading list; locus awards not at westercon any more<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, March 7, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nIt Must have been a year<\/td>\nLAT reviews Benford! With quotes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, March 6, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nGenre Recognition<\/td>\nLA times book awards have category for mystery\/thriller, but nothing for sf\/f\/h<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, March 5, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nStraw Dayling Desire<\/td>\nediting Links Portal; title is allusion to song, not named, but which is by Neil Finn)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, March 3, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nBookstore day<\/td>\nabout current habits of visiting bookstores every Tuesday for what to list on the new books page<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, February 27, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nAffiliations and Adaptation<\/td>\ncomments about Hugo categories and whether Locus Online is ‘professional’ and not ‘fannish’<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, February 25, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nbeing webbish<\/td>\npossibility of another hugo website category; my three principles for how websites should take advantage of the medium<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, February 25, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nreading again<\/td>\nabout not reading much shf anymore<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, February 20, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nalexa<\/td>\nexample traffic ranking of various major sites<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, February 19, 2004<\/a><\/td>\napophenia<\/td>\npattern in recent voting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, February 17, 2004<\/a><\/td>\npassages, 1: road rage<\/td>\npassages from two novels about road rage<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, February 14, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nawards db update<\/td>\nfixed error in locus poll all-time results<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, February 13, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nthis year’s nebula stats<\/td>\nposted own version of nebula ballot, with statistics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, February 12, 2004<\/a><\/td>\ncouldn’t help noticing\u2026<\/td>\n5 of 6 nebula novel nominees are by women<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, February 11, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nvoting options<\/td>\nvoting patterns, ideas to revise poll<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, February 6, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nclades<\/td>\n66 ballots so far; comments<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, February 4, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nvoting early, and often<\/td>\nonline ballot live<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, February 3, 2004<\/a><\/td>\ntechnical difficulties, please stand by<\/td>\nproblem getting online locus poll active<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, January 28, 2004<\/a><\/td>\ncan read, but not talk<\/td>\nchest congestion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, January 23, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nanother prototype<\/td>\nanother slight tweak on homepage<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, January 21, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nflu<\/td>\nhome for a few days<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, January 14, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nfurther design irritants<\/td>\nmentioning URL without a link; anonymous sites<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, January 13, 2004<\/a><\/td>\ndesign irritants<\/td>\nI do object to undated content<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, January 8, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nI have some little lists<\/td>\noverlap between prelim nebula list and locus recommended list<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, January 7, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nThis time for sure<\/td>\nmakeover homepage now posted<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, January 3, 2004<\/a><\/td>\nMakeover draft<\/td>\ndraft complete<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, December 31, 2003<\/a><\/td>\nHoliday Makeover<\/td>\ntweaking website, will eliminate what’s new page<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, December 22, 2003<\/a><\/td>\nAnd Razzleberry Dressing<\/td>\narchive links; compiling data; favorite holiday movie<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, December 19, 2003<\/a><\/td>\nCross Link<\/td>\nUK books appear on searches on Amazon.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, December 19, 2003<\/a><\/td>\nConsolidation<\/td>\nupdating awards db with locus poll<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, December 18, 2003<\/a><\/td>\nThe ships have come to carry you home<\/td>\nholiday break; worry about Blogger archives<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, December 17, 2003<\/a><\/td>\nDatabasing<\/td>\ncombining my and bill contento’s db’s of book reviews<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, December 16, 2003<\/a><\/td>\nOpen House<\/td>\nunpacking, open house last weekend, Jennifer Hall<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, December 10, 2003<\/a><\/td>\nBananas<\/td>\nthat favorite Far Side cartoon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, December 5, 2003<\/a><\/td>\nBy the Light of the Fireflies<\/td>\nGoogle News; essays on site; visitors to site<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, December 4, 2003<\/a><\/td>\nBusy Busy<\/td>\nstephen king essay; being busy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, November 26, 2003<\/a><\/td>\nTwenty Oh<\/td>\nhow people pronounce current years; bottom of inbox<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, November 21, 2003<\/a><\/td>\nDon’t Blink Now<\/td>\ntweak to homepage; the autonomy of running the site<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, November 19, 2003<\/a><\/td>\nJoys of Homeownership<\/td>\nhow we can’t get our cars in the garage, despite new driveway<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, November 16, 2003<\/a><\/td>\nMaybe I Think Too Much<\/td>\ndid not care much for “Love Actually”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, November 15, 2003<\/a><\/td>\nA moonlit reflection of a boat in the distance<\/td>\nbrief comments; need new video card<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, November 14, 2003<\/a><\/td>\nOut of Time<\/td>\nvisiting the bookstore; new driveway; problems installing Uru<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, November 11, 2003<\/a><\/td>\nInfrastructure<\/td>\nupdating indexes on site; amazon searches; cmmi; uncle died<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, November 9, 2003<\/a><\/td>\nToo Many Books<\/td>\ndisputing charges that sf is in a slump<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, November 8, 2003<\/a><\/td>\nStupid DSL Tricks<\/td>\nservice outage; example of badly written review; the disappearance of omni online<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, November 6, 2003<\/a><\/td>\nSecret Masters<\/td>\nlocus foundation meeting; set up an email newsletter?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, November 5, 2003<\/a><\/td>\nMail Call<\/td>\nwhy it takes so long at the post office<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, November 4, 2003<\/a><\/td>\nHome again home again<\/td>\nwhat we saw in DC, a bit about the WFC banquet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, October 30, 2003<\/a><\/td>\nCapitol Dome<\/td>\ntwo days touring DC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, October 28, 2003<\/a><\/td>\nTransit to DC<\/td>\nlong day of travel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, October 26, 2003<\/a><\/td>\nOrange Glow<\/td>\nfire to the east, more winds<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, October 26, 2003<\/a><\/td>\nDangerous Blue Sky<\/td>\nsanta ana winds threaten more brush fires<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturday, October 25, 2003<\/a><\/td>\nLive<\/td>\ntraffic to locus online, etc<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, October 24, 2003<\/a><\/td>\nA Different View<\/td>\nanother template change for the blog<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, October 22, 2003<\/a><\/td>\nNear Term Plans<\/td>\nLeaving for DC, what will be on the site<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, October 20, 2003<\/a><\/td>\nFresh Face<\/td>\nsetting up the blog<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, October 17, 2003<\/a><\/td>\nInbox watch<\/td>\n200 emails today<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, October 16, 2003<\/a><\/td>\nThis is only a test\u2026<\/td>\nexperimenting with Blogger<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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