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Ticking boxes
This week, to celebrate being either unemployed or between contracts (depending on the gasp factor), I’m ticking boxes. Starting with the niggley things. Like confirming my appointment for Wednesday. TICK. Searching LinkedIn and updating connections. TICK. Actioning email requests for website updates. TICK. Hmm… is it possible that two of my ( Read more... ) -
Urban fantasy a go-go
To celebrate the Countdown to Lots of Awesome Urban Fantasy...
I link you to:
Urban Fantasy Land Readers’ Choice Awards!http://urbanfantasyland.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/urban-fantasy-land-readers-choice-awards/
Can I just say?
OUT NOW
- newJeaniene Frost. (Currently reading)
FORTHCOMING
- new Jennifer Rardin
- TWO new Kitty novels
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The 2008 book wrap
I read a lot last year. 109 books to be precise (full list including comments, as usual, is at LibraryThing - sort by date read, almost all genre and a lot of it silly, but then I read for entertainment :)) but here are my stand-outs. Rated 4 stars or higher, sorted by author:
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Books you’re talking about…
I know I’ve been out of the book industry a few months now, and even when I was in the biz I didn’t tend to read the books everyone else was reading (with the occasional exception of the awesome people in the kids team - also about the only people in the building who didn’t look concerned and back away when I launched in to conversations about my ( Read more... ) -
She's ALL about the ebooks these days...
Given that my personal and professional interests collide, perhaps it’s not that strange that I spent a lot of Conflux talking about digital publishing. So it’s perhaps fitting that I logged on to clear my feed and found heaps of ebook links!
Ebook royalties
I really enjoy pubrants, and generally enjoy the conversation in the comments, but this one ( Read more... ) -
Cranky. Happy.
Things that made me cranky today:
- My 100% dedicated developer being pulled on to other projects every time I turned around. NO. YOU CAN NOT HAVE HIM! MINE… Mine, mine, mine, mine.
(I don’t share well with others… At least, not when there are 12 development days remaining and 8 days til the project ends!)
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Dictatorships aren't all bad...
First thing I'd do if I were internet dictator of the world? Impose one browser. Not just one browser, but one version of that browser. And all the plug-ins to go with. It may stifle innovation and impede personal choice, but a thousand and one web producers (not to mention their developers) would thank me for it ;) -
Cupcakes
1. I wish my blue cupcakes were as awesome as these blue cupcakes.
2. I'm seriously considering a cupcake decorating class as part of good food month. Do you s'pose they'd teach me how to make dismembered bodies?
3. See, now I just wanna bake...
4. Observe new icon. Appropriate, no? From a lovely iconset by fleshdance -
End of the world yet?
One for my geeky friends who can read HTML:
http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/
But what you ACTUALLY want to do is view the source of the page *hee*
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Geeky reading with Ph8
Is it a little bit sad that one of my fave things about finishing a book isn’t that I’ve come to the end of the story, but that I get to rate it in LibraryThing and add it to my 100 books challenge?
Go on, no need to be gentle - I know it’s pathetic… :)
Meanwhile, just finished #76 so I’m on track for the year wheee! Of course, the fact that 40 of ( Read more... )