I used to love classifying books into different genres. I’d think of all the labels I could apply to a book: speculative fiction, magical realism, historical fiction, horror, fantasy, high fantasy, stream-of-consciousness, surrealism, et cetera. I think I even knew what all those labels meant, or at least pretended to know what they meant. I [...]
Elegy is a wonderful poem by Steve Abbott, albeit a bit dark for most tastes. Still, as he says: “You should not have to burn your hand every day to feel the mystery of fire.” Also available for listening, at Salon Audio.
It’s about time I started using a version control system. After some thought, I’ve decided to use darcs. I’m familiar with cvs and svn in theory, but haven’t really used either of them. I’ve tried to setup svn on my home machine, but lets just say that it didn’t work out. Darcs is different. For [...]
Google Reader has trends: I like statistics, especially because they allow me to pretend that I’m looking at something important.