Theodicius

Good. Evil. Bratwurst.

Green Grow the Victims

Filed under: Books,General,Mystery— arlen@ 8:18 am

Maybe I’ve just overdosed on the period lately, but this particular mystery, by Jeanne Dams, left me completely cold. Try as I might, I just could not get interested in any of the characters presented in it. That’s a bit unusual, as I have generally liked her work (enough to locate signed firsts of her […]

I won’t, Dantz, don’t ask me

Filed under: General,Technology— arlen@ 8:56 am

Moving on from Retrospect. The tech support dept is lousy, the product is slow and clunky. The last straw? My mother’s biege G3 needed a new backup device. She’d been using a Zip drive, then moved on to a Yamaha SCSI-based CD-RW. Then we found a DVD-RW (USB and Firewire) for her. The Dantz support […]

Safari and KHTML

Filed under: General,Technology— arlen@ 6:42 pm

It had to happen. The strains between Apple and the OS community are showing. I see where the KHTL developers are calling it a failure. I think it may have been, but to me it seems it was a failure expectations more than anything else. Dave Hyatt blogs a little a bout it. KDE developers […]

Political Blogging (a disjointed ramble)

Filed under: General,Politics— arlen@ 4:37 pm

Yes, I blog about some politics. But when I think about blogging and politics, I have to chuckle. For example: Mark Glaser writes about something called BlogNashville, apparently a kind of blogger conference started by a conservative who found too many liberals at the previous blogger conference. And there is a bit of a brew-up […]

Saint Vidicon to the Rescue

Filed under: Books,General,Science Fiction/Fantasy— arlen@ 9:44 am

I have to admit, the cover painting played a part in my purchase of this book. One of the rare times that has occurred, because it’s been my experience that most cover paintings seem to be done by an artist who has read (or at least paid attention to) little more than the title of […]

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