So, who's going to Octocon? I'm on one panel, at noon on Saturday, called Meeting Your Heroes. Who shall I talk about, I wonder?

It seems WexWorlds will be our last SFish outing this year, and I'm very keen to see how it all works out, as it is a brand new format for this kind of thing, as far as I can see. Expectations are high, though ( Read more... )

I see several people are suggesting that James Bacon should have been the recipient of the recent Nobel Peace Prize, a sentiment with which I emphatically concur. James and I go back a long old time, and have been through the wars together, sometimes on the same side, sometimes on opposite sides. Our relationship has been turbulent, but it has ( Read more... )

Now, as I was saying...

Who's going to Octocon? I'll be along for a bit on Saturday on my own, and ephiriel and I will be there for some of Sunday, but we won't be going tonight (Friday), as we're hoping to go see the truly brilliant Sarah Millican, the best new comedian since Jimmy Carr first appeared, instead.

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Joint release from Octocon and Pádraig Ó Méalóid ( Read more... )

Just for the record: At 11.00pm last night I replied to Ms Hannigan thus:

You are going to need to clarify this quite a bit, I’m afraid. What ‘behaviour’ are you referring to?

It’s now 9.11pm, a bit over 22 hours later, and I have not yet received a reply.

The Internet continues to fascinate me. I worte a post at about 8.15pm last night about my being banned from Octocon, and within three hours this had made it as far as this article on Bleeding Cool. God bless Rich Johnston!

On a slightly darker note, James Brophy has been making a series of injudicious and, frankly, psychotic, replies to this post ( Read more... )

This morning I received this email:

Hello ( Read more... )

Although I'd orriginally intended not going along, it seems that, by pure random chance, I'm actually off all next weekend, so may drop along to Octocon for a bit on Saturday, as I've already paid for a pair of supporting memberships. That being the case, who's likely to be there?

Here's a list of events, mostly SF cons, that I'm likely to be going to in the course of the year, or am at least potentially interested in.

February 14th & 15th: EpicCon. A brand-new weekend SF con taking place in NUI Maynooth. I'm really not sure if we're going to be able to go, but it's genuinely good to see a new SF con strating right from ( Read more... )