I have blogged about flash being a new interface. Flash permits the integration of music, graphics and text in a way that HTML can not even start to do. Flash has been around for a while, but unlike HTML, flash has several barriers to newbies. The flash software from Macromedia is expensive. The interface is […]
Wanderings
Resources for Science Fiction: Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. – Ray Bradbury
Monthly Archives: May 2007
Stylin’
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
I have spent the last 15 years writing basically butt-ugly web pages. I have always been proud that my pages have a certain Joie d’Ordure. I think it has been the absolute lack of aesthetic values that have made my web pages stand out. They are memorable in their butt-ugliness. I have received countless complaints […]
blog post from Google docs
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
This is a document created by Google Docs. Google Docs is a way to share and publish documents on the internet. It is compatible with Microsoft Word documents and Excel Spreadsheets. This is a test of the ability to publish a blog post from Google docs. Note: I had to go back and edit the […]
Neuromancer Movie
Monday, May 21, 2007
After years of legal hassle, they might finally be making the Movie version Gibson’s Neuromancer. The Garden State Mall used to be an outdoor mall. There are 4 or 5 malls in that part of New Jersey within a mile or two of each other. I used to go with Erica and while she shopped […]
The end of the Digital Era
Thursday, May 17, 2007
A group of researchers are claiming that analog computers are potentially more powerful than digital ones. For me this is obvious. Digital means dealing in zeros and ones. Analog means smooth variation from zero to one and all the values in between. In digital, things are true or false, in analog things are all shades […]
Stats
Saturday, May 12, 2007
J published his stats. He’s doing a lot better than I am. These are my paid sales.SF: 12Fantasy: 9Horror: 2Sword & Sorcery: 4 In addition to this, I have a 20 or more stories in flash contests and other free venues that I don’t count, and usually aren’t that good. I expect that I made […]
Found in Translation
Friday, May 11, 2007
My previous post was about an author who sounded like he wrote in another language and used some kind of tool to translate into English. For fun, I tried to translate William Gibson’s striking first line from Neuromancer into other languages and back again into English using Alta Vista Babelfish. Here are the results: Original […]
Sad Writer Case
Friday, May 11, 2007
I lurk at several writing forums. I enjoy reading about the struggle to publish. The forums have been quiet all this year. There hasn’t been much happening. Recently, a new writer started posting over at the AR BBS. I thought that it was a joke, because has some sort of writing impediment. It is a […]