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Monday April 1, 2002 

Hurrah!

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Recognition at last...  (but do note the date)

The Internet is Unusually Slow Today. I suspect I know why...

 

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Tuesday, April 2, 2002

I sent out a mailing about this following:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24667.html 

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24668.html   may also be of interest, but is on a different subject.

This may or may not be of concern. It was in part an excuse to send a mailing to subscribers. If you subscribe and did not get today's mailing, let me know: I'll put up returned mail addresses on the badmail page, which will be updated periodically. If you don't subscribe, why not?

I trust everyone understood that the "Award" referenced above was done by someone else, I don't know who, and that the date is significant. My wife thought it a cruel joke. I had expected something of the sort, and if I do get any kind of journalism award it won't be through Time Magazine...

I am hard at work on the column, preparatory to going off to New Jersey Thursday.

I have found that although you can't play Everquest or Asheron's Call through the DirecPC satellite connection, you can play Dark Age of Camelot that way. The latency isn't good, but actually it's lower than the lag I get on Everquest some nights with a 44K connection. Interesting.

Want to get rid of a bad neighbor?

http://www.lizardkeepers.com/ 

Robert Strausz-Hupe, RIP

 

 

 

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Wednesday, April 3, 2002

Tomorrow I am off to the the Jersey Devil Convention, so if you don't hear from me until next week, all is well. We have house sitters and security. I may or may not take a computer with me. I will take the cameras and get some shots of Terry Pratchett at play.

I got so many returns from my mailing yesterday that I did another today. If you subscribe and didn't get the mailings, either your mailbox is full -- that happens more frequently than I'd suppose -- or I have the wrong address for you. If you don't subscribe, why not?

I have got the column done, except for tiny finishing touches and a couple of closing items that I need to do. I'm behind on my taxes and on Burning City. Sigh.

There's a lot of mail. I'll see what I can do with it.

Conspiracy theorists take notice:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-252124,00.html 


I have 16 subscribers with @home.com mail addresses. Of course all that mail was returned.  If you had an @home address, PLEASE SEND ME THE NEW ONE unless you are regularly getting the mail to subscribers.

 

For the rest, I have got far too many returns: something is wrong, and I'll have to work on it next week.

 

If you got the mailings, fine. If you didn't, wait until next week: I'll to another test then. Clearly I have been sending these with the wrong server, and I may have fixed that, but we'll see.

And now I am closing down until I get to New Jersey, or possibly until I get back home.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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On The Road

 

 

 

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Friday, April 5, 2002

Well I am here. I even got connected. You will not believe some of the difficulties, mostly cause by Microsoft Windows 2000 which has an unbelievable mess regarding users and what that does to Outlook when you attempt to just log on to a portable. This is unbelievably fouled up and I am not likely to get it straightened out, so I am not likely to be answering much mail, or doing much.

Had dinner with Terry Pratchett last night. Convention stuff starts shortly. No notable adventures on airlines leaving Burbank but noted enormous lines stretching the length of the terminal for people trying to get out of Newark. Norman Minetta strikes again. We are no safer but we are being accustomed to having our hired captains jeer us, and being patient as subjects rather than insisting on anything like the rights of citizens. So it goes.

I watch the Middle East with horror, but it is not unexpected horror; and it will not end soon. Francis Fukuyama proclaimed The End Of History some time ago. Liberal Democracy would take over the world. Interesting that the world's energy suppliers haven't noticed that. Who on the Palestinian side could make a deal that everyone there would keep? And given that Israel insists on holding Arafat responsible while taking away from him any possible means of enforcing his will, what will be the outcome of that? It looks like interesting times to come.

 

Mail will be VERY short shrift, mostly without comment at all, for several days.

 

I am analyzing the site statistics. We get far more traffic than I thought we did. There is a recent article on "blogs" ie web logs showing a growing influence; some of those mentioned apparently get less traffic than we do here. Interesting.

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Saturday, April 6, 2002

New Jersey

Pleasant dinner and evening with Mike Flynn, co author with me and Niven of Fallen Angels, and Ed Hume who contributes letters and thoughts here from time to time.

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Sunday, April 7, 2002

The convention is done. Good time had by all. Now for Newark Airport which may not be. 

Home safe, not much in the way of adventures other than no dinner. I'll update all this tomorrow.

http://judiciary.senate.gov/special/feature.cfm

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