It’s ’s fault. He asked me if I’d got anywhere with TaKtiX. I hadn’t, I’ve been meaning to figure out the coding issues for ages, but haven’t. Stuff the coding issues. It’s live.
It’s already got 6 new signed up columnists. ? Since my PC crash, I haven’t actually got a valid email address for you it seems, if you’ve told me recently, I’ve lost it or gmail has eaten it, can you mail me, I’ll send the invites. You might be interested to know, signed up are:
Chris Dyer, Laurence Sinclair, Jeremiah Uselton, me (naturally), Mike Leader and Todd Rowland. I’ve also added and Laurence to the Warhammer section (Tim? The “guy you don’t know” is , good friend of mine, lives in Kingsteinton, you’ll meet him at some point in Exeter).
Also due to be set up are Paul Dulany (Nihil) and (vtalon). That’s without putting any effort in. Also, more page views in 6 hours than I get in 2 days at the political blog. With almost no content. But everyone is very keen, and let’s face it, the interface is incredibly easy. The things I do when I’m ill.
I was supposed to be writing an article on the Human Rights Act. Or the Constitution. Or the Legislateive and Regulatory (abolish Parliament) bill.
? Would you be interested in writing a bit of Doomtown content?
May 17th, 2006
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Bibliophiles
writes book reviews, amongst other things. He’s also got a vote in the Hugo awards (Swainston for the Campbell Nick, you know it, the world knows it). I don’t recall now which one of us friended the other first, I’ve been aquiring ‘politics’ LJ a lot last few months. So. Why do we care?
This is an interesting (and negative) review of John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War which is nominated. I read it soon after it was posted. Thing is, Mr Scalzi is also . He wrote a rather long, and very civil, rebuttal on a number of points of the review in the comments, and also on his blog here. Based on Nick’s review, I’d have possibly actually picked the book up, because the premise intrigued me. Now I definately want to read it, because, well, that sort of debate between reviewer, author, publisher (see comments on Scalzi’s blog entry) and assorted fans is simply very very cool.
Constructive, involving, civil and useful. Nick’s written a follow up here. Spoiler warnings throughout, but spoilers never really bother me.
Now, if we can get politicians to properly engage in such a manner, then democracy still has hope. Yup, Mat the hopeless idealist strikes again. I love the Internet.
Addenda: ? Swainston is up for the John W. Campbell ‘best newcomer’ award. Just in case you didn’t know. Also, do you still have either/both of Year of our War/No Present like Time? Only my father managed to donate a pile of books to charity, including some of the ones I’d loaned him. Yup, that’s right, my father gave books away without first asking me if I wanted them. He didn’t realise he had any of my books. This included my copy of Jennifer Government and 2 (unknown) others. Not a happy boy when I found out.
May 17th, 2006
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