Damek.

Back in November I decided it would be nice to have a little home file server, to store music files, Quicken data, and other files for easy access from my laptop, Alex’s laptop, and from remote places like my cubicle at work. I’ve already been aware for some time of the small, low-power computers [...]

Peace on earth, goodwill to everyone.
Really, if the Christians concerned about the Christmas being taken out of Christmas want to do something about it, they’re very welcome to join us liberal secularists in railing against the corporate commercialism of the holiday. We’ve been going on about this sort of thing for years.
But hey, if [...]

Gnayse is Bola’s darkest album yet. Oh, you may have been carried away softly by Soup, you may have been slightly unsettled by the dark funk on Fyuti (and less so by its jazzier sibling, Voile, released under the “Jello” nom de plume) — but Gnayse is an entirely new beast. Sonically very [...]

You may have noticed some changes around here. Let me assure you, it’s all in your imagination. However, if anything should seem broken or aesthetically repugnant, please do let me know, and I’ll see what I can do about your imagination.

So Ursula K. Le Guin is pretty unhappy with the Sci-Fi channel’s adaptation of her Earthsea series. She’s written a highly critical blurb on her website, a column about it at Slate, and a more detailed chronology at The Agony Column. Granted, I haven’t read her Earthsea books (though I have read and [...]